• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Historically, the church was the source of social safety nets in society. in the modern era, that’s changed to government-ran safety nets (well fare, social security, etc).

    there was also some even older precedence of the church running some of the government, so that was payment for that.