I heard someone talking once about “what businessmen can learn from Jesus” but it was this ass-backwards reading of his parables for people steeped in Protestant gospel-reading Christianity where the spiritual reading (which they were familiar with) was used to introduce the business reading.

Like, you realize we’re the same species as back then, and things like “the trust fund hipster wasting his time and money in the city” and “the principal-agent problem” and “guests who don’t really appreciate how fucking expensive this wedding reception is” are not novel?

I think it is kind of a corrective to the image of Christianity as the natural religion of the downtrodden that, in his own day, Jesus in trying to communicate with his target audience tended towards this sort of little-bourgeois-things idiom. Dude was in fact a Hebrew nationalist against Roman imperialism and it’s really kind of the natural religion of local elites, which if you look at how Christianity’s functioned and spread for thousands of years makes hella sense. Of course, in a reasonable world its institutional form would be called “The Pauline Church” (oh wait it is) but hey.