Christianity in the middle Ages and early modern times.

和中世纪及近代早期基督教的核心信念
All the scruples, all the rules about usury being not okay,

他们认为所有对高利贷的顾忌和控制不够
that is, lending at interest being a biblical violation,

即加息偿还是对圣经的亵渎
all those ideas come from this;

这些想法都源于这个思想
that the total wealth produced by and for mankind,

即人类创造出的
humankind, by and for humankind, is essentially a fixed quantity,

总财富本质上是固定的
so that as I get rich

所以如果我变得富有
the act of getting rich imposes relative poverty on others.

那代价就是别人变得相对贫穷
In schematic form we have a two person society

在示意图上我们有一个只有两人的社会
and going away from the origin means getting richer,

离开原点表示变得有钱
the budget plane is a 45 degree angle,

预算线和坐标轴呈45度角
where X plus Y equals a constant sum so that movements of getting rich,

使得X加上Y等于常数