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There are only two ways to acquire wealth: Moral and immoral. The moral way includes efforts like creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, invention, and hard and intelligent work. The sinful way, on the other hand, includes murder, theft, cheating, tax, bribery and cronyism. The difference between moral and immoral methods is that in moral methods, good people offer a valuable and sellable product or service. In return, the customers freely and voluntarily pay for the products and services. In immoral methods, evil people use coercive force to extract resources, wealth and money from unwilling masses. If you go deep, coercion is the bottom line of all sinful acts.
Coercion is the bug that has infested human societies in all known history worldwide, and the government is the epitome of all coercion. From A to Z, the government’s whole foundation is coercion. Instead of honestly earning with the help of voluntary transactions, the government earns all to all with coercion via involuntary transactions. Then, it uses that money to indefinitely and limitlessly enslave the people it extracted the money from. It “legislates” the arbitrary laws entirely at the whims and wishes of elite masters to keep everyone in the loop forever.
It taxes and causes inflation by printing incredible amounts of money to wage and support wars, encourage dependence and welfare slavery, commit violence in the name of law enforcement and tell people what they can put in their bodies. It extracts money from hard-working people to build palaces, buy luxurious aeroplanes, boats and cars, and armies of servants, and ruthlessly colludes bureaucrats.
The government is the only major institution that never accepts its failure. It always blames it on the lack of funds and uses its failures as an excuse to extract more money from hard-working people. Under these circumstances, a for-profit business accepts its failure. Then, it either goes out of business or cuts expenses and improves products and services to please its customers and earn its business.
The government is a monster that continuously grows. Its thirst for stolen money never gets satisfied. Even the government extracting four trillion dollars in taxes always complains about a lake of funds and continues to cause inflation by printing more and more.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Corruption, cronyism, waste, and inefficiency are the hallmarks of every government that has ever existed on this planet. With zero accountability, practically speaking, they can do whatever they want. They trick people by telling people that Democracy is the accountability check on government. But any sane and knowledgable person can look around and read in history books how miserably this check fails every single time. Democracy has the opposite effect on accountability. Politicians either want to get the maximum out of their two, four or five years if limited by terms or spend most of their time in efforts and cronyism to get elected in the next elections. In the good old days, at least monarchs had to preserve and improve their kingdom’s value for future generations.
The most effective method for politicians to get elected and re-elected is by offering “Free Stuff.” Of course, we all know that nothing is free and cannot be free simply because human labour and all capital have price tags attached. Free is possible only in a utopia where everyone performs slave labour and every resource on this planet is infinitely available, like air.
But we know that in the societies of free people, labour is not free, and none of the resources are infinitely available. So, the only way around this is to snatch it from Peter and give it to Paul. But this keeps decreasing the Peters and increasing the Pauls to the point where the demands of Pauls surpass Peters’ productivity. Bankruptcy is where Eutopian societies like Socialist and welfare states collapse, as happened in Rome, the USSR, pre-market regimes in China and India, and Cambodia and as is happening in Venezuela right now. Inflation also ruins societies like Zimbabwe, the Weimar Republic, Argentina, Venezuela, and Tunisia. War also monetarily destroys countries, as is happening in Ukraine right now. However, governments like the US government and practically every government on this planet never learn, and the result is that every one of these is on the way to bankruptcy.
Buying votes is expensive, so government debt keeps piling up even in the most robust economies and the countries with the most significant tax bases.
Government is that ever-increasing burden on the backs of the people that ultimately breaks down the backbones. That is why every empire falls. I do not care what public school textbooks have told you. However, the ultimate root causes of the failure of every empire were warfare and welfare.
What boggles my mind is why most people still do not get it. The reason is that over millennia, governments have built extensive webs of slavery. These include bureaucracies, technocracies, academia (formerly priest class), media (formerly churches), public schools (formerly church schools), and the political class (formerly apostles) that stay in bed together for one single purpose: to keep it going, maintain the status quo, and keep tax-paying minions in the loop.
Have a deep look at the history, and you will realise that after every epic failure, they repackaged, rebranded, and renamed the same old, and the elite controllers told us that the system got fixed. In reality, it always was the same old Oligarchy. Every single political system that has ever existed on this planet has been an oligarchy, i.e., few bossing around everyone else. Only the terminology becomes more deceptive. Rulers are now servants, priests are now academia, the holy book is now the constitution, religion is now the state, God is now the government, and the prophet is now president. Atheism just rebranded the same old in the name of freedom and ended the control of the theist religion. Atheism itself became the worst religion ever. Humans have never lived in a political system as coercive and exploitative as the one we live under.
