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minus-squareALoafOfBread@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-22 days agoNo single words, and nothing that seems too interesting in German, but there’s a good Cantonese phrase that encompasses that sentiment: 殺人放火金腰帶,修橋補路無屍骸 shā rén fàng huǒ jīn yāo dài, xiū qiáo bǔ lù wú shī hái Roughly, “murder and arson earn a gold belt; doing good deeds (lit. building bridges and repairing roads) leaves no corpse (i.e. no one can find your body to bury properly).
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoAnd yet society is built by the people who make and repair roads and bridges. The gold belt I assume is a phrase for wealth and power.
No single words, and nothing that seems too interesting in German, but there’s a good Cantonese phrase that encompasses that sentiment:
Roughly, “murder and arson earn a gold belt; doing good deeds (lit. building bridges and repairing roads) leaves no corpse (i.e. no one can find your body to bury properly).
Love it.
And yet society is built by the people who make and repair roads and bridges.
The gold belt I assume is a phrase for wealth and power.