[MrB]

There is a HUGE difference between charity and forced wealth transfer.

[muawiyah]

You didn't say anything about "forced'. Now you want to change the subject ~ but remember credit cards, cash, gold, silver, cows, pigs, chickens ~ you name it ~ all have a history of being used to make symbolic wealth transfers!

That's what they do ~ chickens are the best though because a poor man can slaughter and eat the chicken in one meal with little waste. Cows are a problem ~ which is why the Sumerians invented those little clay 'bulls", and then invented "press in bulls', and finally went from their accounting system for bulls to the world's first written language.

If they'd stuck to gold and silver you'd be illiterate!