Wind moves leaves. Electricity moves motors. Money moves people. Most people love to move people. So, most people love money. Money is vanity at work.
A few are blessed with the desire to help others. Those called by God to help their neighbors will join Catholic organizations that require vows of poverty, celibacy, and poverty. Many people do charitable work that’s not particularly lucrative but does allow them to do good with the gifts they’ve been given.
Most people think that having more money is more important than serving others. Some people try to make money by inventing. If a person develops a new and more efficient thing or process, he may make money.
Inventing, qualifying, manufacturing, and marketing new things and procedures is expensive. Inventors need money to get those jobs done. The lenders or investors who provide the money are interested making more money so they can get more from others. Typical desires include bigger yachts, homes, landholdings, bank balances, and jewelry.
The entire process is built around vanity. Each person willfully involved in any such process wants more things, time, or effort from more people. All are looking for ways to get it.
We understand that money is energy. Where does money come from? Governments regulate their nation’s money supply.
Governments have leaders. Some people become government leaders because they are desperate to be liked. They enjoy being liked so much that they simply can’t say “No.” to people who want them to print more money. Governments under their control print more and more money because people like it and the leaders want the people to like them.
Can governments get away with printing money just to make people happy? It is amazing, but, sometimes, they can. Here is the Catholic Fundamentalism formula for printing money: “The money supply can be increased as long as productivity increases slightly more quickly.”
The problem is this: Government attracts its share of unhappy, bitter people who enjoy bossing people around. Such natures are at odds with the happy, cheerful kind of people who love to invent new ways to be more productive. The unhappiest and most bitter government employees prevent the happy, cheerful people from inventing new ways to be productive.
Their lack of love for neighbors manifests itself in excessive regulations. Hurtful rules cause productivity to slow, and, finally, stop. But,the money supply keeps growing because people demand more, and have to have it, just to stay even. Money is soon being printed more quickly than new production and distribution efficiencies can be implemented. Every day, money buys less. Recession, depression, and collapses are the result.
The reason for the pain? The unhappy, bitter officials won’t let people solve their problems and make things better. They just can’t stand it when free people have fun, enjoy life, and make things better for all.
Institutionalized negativity, and not excessive money-printing, is what causes recessions and depressions. No government official will ever admit it, but that’s the way it is. We see the proof of it in the shale gas that’s lowered energy prices and brought prosperity wherever government officials were happy and well-adjusted enough to let it happen.
In the final analysis, it is the bad attitudes of some officials that destroy the value of their own government’s money.
