« Reply #53 on: Tue, 14 November 2023, 07:53:56 »
Were we all much more "part of the team" before currency and its embezzlement?
Absolutey. When all social units were family or village units (and the village was probably mostly cousins anyway) selfishness was not a viable thing.
Life was simply too difficult and not cooperating was simply not an option.
Civilization is a double-edged sword, and regulation is the only means of prevent it from cutting the wrong way.

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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933