Read on Twitter
So...in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Latter-day Saints would often pay an elderly person to go do temple work for their ancestors.
The temple endowment took a long time, so doing your own temple work was a challenge. Paying someone else made sense from an efficiency perspective.
It also kind of operated, though, as a welfare system. I'm looking now at yet another story of someone whose income in their old age was from temple work.
I get why we stopped paying people for temple work. But in a lot of countries, it would be nice if we still had that tradition. If temple work still was a way to give money as well as meaning to people in need.
