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Fun fact: the catholic church considers both murder and late wages "sins that cry to heaven". If someone can't make the rent because someone else messed up it can have enormous ripple effects.



Yes, and emphasized in Jewish law, too.

- Leviticus 19:13 - "You shall not leave [with you] the payment of a worker overnight until the morning..."

- Deuteronomy 24:15 - "On his day you should give his wages, the sun should not set on it, because he is a poor man and his life depends on it...”

And that's true whether you're a super-religious Chassid type or a super-socialist Workman's Circle Bundist type:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1218800/jewis...

https://www.laborpress.org/workmen-s-circle-backs-fight-for-...




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