I have wondered are there any numbers on how many volunteers have contributed to the mega real estate holdings now being sold for mega millions? How many have been let go over that last several years without any social security or unemployment benefits? Has anyone challenged the law of Volunteer versus Employee that has allowed the WBTS make so much money off their real estate holdings? Would appreciate any information if this has been discussed before. Thank You Sherilynn
How many Volunteers built the WBTS Real Estate Empire?
by Sherilynn 3 Replies latest jw friends
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ÁrbolesdeArabia
It's all built on "donations and donated time", millions donated time and money over the years! Special equipment installed required companies who did not accept Watchtower and Awake gift-cards, so subtract a thousand people who were paid to work.
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JW GoneBad
Found this quote in the ‘Jeremiah’ book JWs are currently studying at the ‘Bible Study’ (formerly Book Study) meeting.
WT on page 49 paragraph 12 finds fault with King Jehoiakim who took advantage of fellow worshipers to build himself among other things ….’a roomy house’. The paragraph reads:
‘Let us now consider the example of King Jehoiakim to see how people in Jeremiah’s day might have been molded in matters of daily life. The Law decreed that one “must not defraud a hired laborer,” yet the king did just that, exploiting fellow Israelites by using them as a source of cheap labor to build “a roomy house.” (Deut. 24:14; Jer. 22:13, 14, 17) God tried to mold Jehoiakim by means of His word delivered by the prophets. Yet, the king followed the inclination of his treacherous heart. He said, “I shall not obey” and held to the way he had taken from his youth on. Thus, God said: “With the burial of a he-ass [Jehoiakim] will be buried, with a dragging about and a throwing away.”’(Jer. 22:19, 21)
Reminds me of how today WT exploits fellow worshipers not only to build assembly and kingdom halls worldwide (labor free) and winds up pocketing the hundreds of millions of dollars from said construction but the GB are currently building ‘a roomy house’ for themselves in Wallkill, NY that will eventually become the living quarters of many if not most of WT heavies. And all of it is from cheap labor and in most cases…… donated labor or labor free!
Is it possible that, like Jehoiakim’, the WT GB will also be buried with the burial of a he-ass for exploiting fellow JWs?
It would be a burial well-deserved!