Avi
“2. Shmittah is not anti-capitalist. It is simply taking a year off to recharge one’s spiritual batteries”
Love it! A law reqiring taking a year off of work isnt anticapitalist
” As for the gifts to the poor (I assume those are the rest of your long list),”
nope those were some I can’t find the thread that we came up with but off the top of my head :
ribbis is assur
Hassagas gvul (unfettered competition) is assur
Land can’t be sold permanently
Loans are cancelled at maximum seven years.
(there were more I’ll look for the thread)
sure there are some “workarounds” for some of these, but that doesnt change the fact that the Torah abhors pure market capitalism