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![AVARICE AND TRADE
The sins of the individual were therefore decried in estates theory as a cause of dissension in society, and traders and craftsmen came to be associated with particular vices.67 Traders were particularly apt figures to exemplify the deadly sin of avarice (or covetousness), which encouraged acquisitiveness and selfishness to the destruction of others. Covetousness was interpreted as an inordinate and selfish love of worldly goods, leading the avaricious man to use deceits, usury, theft, violence, false claims, sacrilege, simony, treachery, wicked crafts (such as prostitution or professional fighting) and gambling to gather riches. The avaricious did not think about God, their soul, the poor or the unfortunate in their pursuit of excessive gain. It was a vice that could never be satisfied and
knew no bounds: ‘þe see drinkiþ al þe watres of þe world; so þe couetous mannes wille swoleweþ [swallow] alle þe richessis of þe world, þerfore he is þus vnsaciable (þat is, vnable to be fulfilled)’.
Caveat that I'm not a translator, but I think the translation for the Middle English is roughly "the sea drinks all the waters of the world; so the covetous man will swallow all the richness of the world, therefore he is insatiable (that is, unable to be fulfilled)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slaplclxyhhfeajd4oorkmn5/bafkreiayegino5gk6knij7d64jr2x62stlnkygnqeanm4srbwv5j2ofgte)
