Scarcity makes prices go up and makes profits go up even more. As a result, powerful forces always work to promote scarcity, even when there is plenty. Many are willing to impoverish their neighbors to enrich themselves, forcing them to pay more than they need for all they buy.
Energy Rationers.
The energy sector of the economy shows several good examples of manufactured scarcity. As most of us know, nuclear reactors produce cheap, clean energy for about a penny and a half per kilowatt hour. Wind energy costs about $1.20/kwh, and solar costs nearly as much. It is physically impossible for either of these sources to meet the real needs of our homes, offices, schools, and factories. The Energy Rationers intentionally ignore this basic truth. They know that by making energy more expensive, their own profits skyrocket.
One part of the energy sector is concerned with hydro-carbons extracted from the earth. These run the gamut from natural gas to tar. Hydro-carbons are produced deep underground, and forced to the surface by the huge thermonuclear reactor that is the earth’s core. Oil seeps in one short stretch of Pacific coastline pump out the equivalent of 50 or 60 Exxon-Valdeze tankers of oil every day.
Instead of admitting this, The Rationers have convinced the left-hand 95% of the bell curve that hydrocarbons are “fossil fuels” that come from decaying organic materials. This vast lie allows them to tell people that “we’re running out of oil and natural gas”, and gouge us accordingly.
Energy rationers hire pseudo-intellectual goon squads to lie for them. A vast media, peopled by proven liars, spreads their lies on a daily basis. The scariest lies are often the most effective.
Knowledge Rationers.
Once, Americans largely taught themselves to read, write, and do arithmetic. Some communities built small schools, often one room, holding the near-by children who were taught by a school-teacher hired by some of the local parents. Today, with the internet, there is absolutely no need for any child to have to go to a “school” and learn less than could be learned at home.
Innocent parents wonder why schools don’t, for instance, teach reading with the proven method of phonics. Instead, bizarre, failed methods are used in order to keep children from learning to read. By rationing the amount of knowledge, and slowing down the rate at which it is imparted, children can be kept in schools for longer periods of time. That provides increased funding.
More public “educators” than ever have made lucrative jobs for themselves. The more they can slow down the speed with which students learn, the more jobs they make for the kind of people who want that sort of “work”. Knowledge transfer is now so abysmally slow that high school students, who were once conversant with Latin, Greek, calculus, and had real math skills, today need four more years at a “college” or “university” to catch up to where their grandparents were by the time they left high school.
Rationing the transfer of knowledge has succeeded in producing generations of children whose abilities are limited to jobs in other rationing agencies.
