It is probably because I have almost entirely ignored Malthus's theodicity — the theological aspects and implications of his political economy — that I find his case so much harder to express.
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Theodicity
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Implicitly, this theodicity of progress, coming as reward to the hardworking, entrepreneurial West, presupposed a harmonious vision of the world, again in the fashion of traditional cosmogonies, always organized and hierarchized.
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This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.
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In short, according to Max Weber, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged and the ill fortune of the poor, arguing that rich and poor alike merit their status in life.
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