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Poverty and unjust working conditions are real problems, and sometimes their root lies in an unjust and dysfunctional economic system—socialism being the example par excellence. But usually, societal injustices are the result of deeper moral evils like greed, envy, indifference, and selfishness. Simply reordering society so people aren’t poor can’t eliminate these vices (and doesn’t solve poverty, either). That’s the error of liberation theology which, as we’ …