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Unproductive priestly castes, including unproductive priestly castes which fail to provide spiritual comfort and moral guidance to the 2nd and 3rd estates while also failing to live up to the tenets of their own religion, predate capitalism. In our own post-Protestant culture, the paradigm example is the Catholic Church immediately before the Reformation.
The expensively-educated 110-130 IQ white women who go into left-wing NGOery are working harder and earning less (when government benefits are included) than they would in the government, or in some suitable support role in the private sector like HR or in-house legal. So at least they have skin in the game in a way the Renaissance party Popes didn't*.
* Except Julius II, who had very literal skin in the game because he personally led the armies of the Papal States into battle.
The 'unproductive priestly caste' thing is protestant propaganda, which seems obvious if you let it roll around in your head for a minute. You typically had to pay your way into the monastery, because you'd be getting room, board, clothes, etc without ever paying another penny. But in fact, it was so expensive, that you were also expected to have a trade or some way to support yourself/the monastery. One example that comes to mind is the many years the monks at Gottweig abbey have made a very popular apricot schnapps
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