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minus-squareALoafOfBread@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 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. you die in a way that no one can find your body to bury properly).
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 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. you die in a way that no one can find your body to bury properly).
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.