When the bureaucratic aristocracy takes too much from their nation’s people, they borrow a lot more money. When they do, their fellow-countrymen’s money declines in value. “I’m not really going to pick your pocket, I’m just going to make your ten dollar bills have one dollar in purchasing power. You people still have plenty of money.”
Dulled by expensive media, distracted by sports, and trying to keep a hundred hands out of our pockets, most of us don’t notice. Sure, we say, “I wish I’d bought silver at four dollars an ounce, now that it’s at $40.”, but that’s another way of saying, “My fifty dollar bill now buys as much as my ten dollar bill a few years ago.”
What causes this willful impoverishment of neighbors? An analogy. In the South, before the Civil War, white southern men were ashamed of doing manual labor. They were led to believe that such work was for slaves. If the slaves were freed, the poorer of them would be hired to do what the slaves had been made to do for free. “Ah ain’t gonna do no slave labor.”, they proudly announced to each other as they strutted around with big bowie knives and pistols in there belts, “ready fer trubble”.
As a result, in many towns, the only skilled craftsmen were Yankees who came South to do the work slaves weren’t technically able to do and that white Southerners didn’t want to do.
Why would they rather die in a war with the mechanized North than get their hands dirty? Vanity.
Today, vanity inspires people to be bureaucrats. Few worries, no fears, no manual labor.
