Bible Study: John 4: 5-13 The Samaritan at the Lemonade Stand

[kdavoli]

5...Jesus came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, and, tired as he was from the journey, sat down on the curb. It was severiously hot out.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to grab a tasty tasty drink, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a lemonade? 8My boys are grabbing us all some take-out falafel ..."
9 The Samaritan woman said to Him, “You sure I

Comments

[soong]

I often enjoy your vernacular Bible passages, but I'm a little fuzzy on this one.
Was the lemonade seller charging a reasonable price? Did Jesus pay for it or just beg for it?
I want the moral to be that it is good not to charge unreasonably for things people need, but I'm not sure how to get there from here.

[pyrtolin]

When there is plenty, putting a price against need can only serve to deny fulfillment of some subset of those needs and encourage poor allocation of overall resources (where wealth-backed wants can out-bid the needs of the impoverished)

One of the fundamental points of community and a health society is that it allows people to better pool their effort to meet common needs; the compensation for producing up to the point of meeting those needs for the community, then should come from the community as a whole. (And, of course, since that same community is seeing that their basic needs are met as well, that compensation, beyond material costs, ends up being profit on their part.)

So it does come down to maintaining a fair price on production to meet basic needs, but there's no way to universally assess that price fairly on the individual level without appealing to communal resources to negate basic inequity.

[demureserenity]

:)