The unfortunate fact of the matter is that religious vocations in the Catholic Church are way more rare than they used to be. The church sometimes struggles to have enough priests to meet the needs of the parishes, let alone having enough monks to keep up all the monasteries.

Since there aren't enough monks, the church would have to pay people to come in and maintain the place - but they can't really afford that. So, either they let these beautiful places crumble and decay, or they sell them to someone who will hopefully be able to take care of it. Between the two, the latter seems like the least bad option to me. I certainly wish that these places could stay as part of the church and not be some billionaire's home, but I would rather they be a billionaire's home than go to ruin.

> made easier only when you got a cenobium living on the grounds

or being a billionaire.

I notice that when anyone says anything negative about the rich on the internet, people show up at lightspeed like you insulted their mom to defend them

The debt will be inflated away, we'll lose access to cheap debt, and tech-company bonds will be the new treasuries.

ultimately we may be better off over the long term since the firehose of government money creates a lot of market distortions and inefficiencies.

> Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable?

It fails through stagflation. There are lots of people speculating the US is doing that right now, but since their most recent inflation numbers are bad, nobody has the data to say it for sure.

Just increasing government debit isn't a problem by itself. It becomes a problem when that raising debit isn't making the economy grow.

They can take your stuff faster than you can make it.

Buy gold and silver. Seriously. If you do not see the precipice we are a top of I have nothing else to say. ever since the great recession the Fed has been propping up the economy with low interest rates and Quantitative Easing. There is no way out of this but for an even greater depression.

All these fake trump bucks and investment plans are not for the children, they are for the investors that need the money in the market as another way to prop it up. The whole thing with Dell giving this money to these kids? Bullsht. He gave it to himself and to other investors. Nothing but a new kind of stock buyback plan.

Get ready to see poverty, and get ready to help each other. We are living through the 1920's again and it is crazy very few see it.

Don’t worry about it - you know why? Because if the entire thing crashes, then everyone crashes with it, and there’s a million people (or more) that have a lot more skin in the game, a lot more power, and therefore a lot more incentive to make sure this doesn’t crash.

This is not your battle alone, so don’t worry like it is.

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Do not laugh at the billionaire.

Laughing at billionaires is the antichrist.

It's not that isolated, temporarily during a snowstorm, sometimes. Otherwise it's neither off-grid, nor at the end of the world.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=St.+Benedict%E2%80%99s+Monastery+i...

Several bizjet-capable airports near there. And that's all that counts :)

You’re thinking of Peter Thiel, who is not the CEO of Palantir.

The man who fancies himself a modern-day Sauron (yes! [1]), who says “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." and who wants to assemble a neo-theocracy by a wealthy elite does something.

Some people: “we do not like this”

Random internet guy: “stop disliking this guy!”

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/takedemocracyback.org/post/3lk4u55a...

People see the rich getting richer while they struggle. This is your daily reminder we live in a segregated society