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da Vinci got in trouble for......

In Reply to: da Vinci as posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on October 12, 1997 at 18:23:03:

: : Leonardo da Vinci wasn't alive during the time of what we know as modern capitalism.As a matter of fact,for much of his life,he was sponsored by the Medici family so maybe you can put him on a list of socialist welfare bums.I don't think he would care.

: And didn't da Vinci dig up recently-dead corpses from the graveyards to find out how to draw anatomy? Yes he did and that got him on hot water with religious authorities who thought he was engaging in witchcraft. Hardly the sort of behavior one would expect from an investment banker, or anyone whose primary interest was what economist Robert Heilbroner calls the "capitalist drive"...

Those guys get othger folks to dig uo bodies for them. I think they're called "casual labor".

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