The power of money

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Peter Kopa, 12.5.2023, Prague

Introduction

During my study stay in Pamplona, Spain, I liked this old saying in rhyme: ‘The gentleman Don Dinero is powerful’. The power of money appeared many centuries before the Christian era, as a means of exchange, to avoid the direct exchange of sheep against wood, for example. First coins with an intrinsic value were used: gold and silver. Soon alloys with other metals arose, in order to produce more coins with the same amount of precious metal: this is the birth of inflation, with which so many wars and other undertakings have been financed, at the expense of the impoverishment of the people themselves.

Money allowed enormous economic progress, but it also facilitated corruption and all kinds of crimes. Thus appears the negative connotation of money as something dirty. An iconic scene, in this sense, are the coins given to Judas to deliver Christ, which were then thrown with contempt in the face of those who gave them to him. Centuries later, the coins were deposited in certain trusted hands – this is the birth of the banks – against delivery of a paper certifying its full coverage in gold or silver of that paper.

This gold coverage was cancelled in the USA on August 15, 1971 by Richard Nixon. In the 52 years that followed, the dollar lost more than 90% of its value. But with reference to gold, in 1971 an ounce was worth 35 USD and today it is worth 2011 USD. The world’s other leading currencies have had a similar fate. The successive devaluations are still a bit of a mystery, because during these years, economic prosperity in Western countries soared. It is also worth talking about the power of money in a positive sense. And it should be borne in mind that devaluations have been compensated by higher remuneration for work.

Banknotes are a legal means of payment because the government says so. However, the USA and the EU have in recent years printed enormous quantities of banknotes to finance wars and government programs. These measures have been partly an abuse of power, always at the expense of the people themselves. We see this especially in hegemonic states such as the USA, Russia, China and India. To summarize, it can be said that the good and bad in man is projected through money.

The power of money in the hands of the state

El dinero físico, garante de libertad

Every time I leave the underground subway station near my home in Prague, I often read the following ceramic bas-relief, left as a didactic message by the former communist regime: ‘All the power of the nation has its origin in the people’. This is a great truth: the state apparatus is continuously maintained by the tax payers. That is to say, the entire bureaucratic structure, the army and so many state buildings and enterprises come from the labor of the people themselves. Today, in Europe, the tax burden has reached about 50%! Scientists in the matter consider this scale to be highly confiscatory.

Over time, the state has slowly tightened the tax tourniquet. To see the full fiscal picture, one must add direct taxes to indirect taxes and fees, which the state charges even for parking a car on land that belongs to everyone. And these increases have been made without prior consultation with the people – as in Switzerland -, nor considering their impact in times of economic crisis and high unemployment. La tiranía fiscal (I)

On the other hand, it is true that the state provides benefits, such as the army, transportation infrastructure, free education and not much more. It should be noted that health care and pensions are paid separately by each citizen. It has long been well known what the science of the administration of the common good tells us: that it is optimal for the state to respect the rights of intermediate groups. Subsidiarily, they can cover many needs at a much lower cost. In this sense, the privatization of state services is the order of the day in certain countries such as the UK and the USA: rail transport, water supply networks, energy, communications, education at all levels, pension funds, etc. In this way, taxes would have to be lowered again and the state, as a service to the individual, would have to contract. Otherwise, with the power of money in their hands, civil servants tend to think that the state is something greater and prior to the citizens, who would have the obligation to serve it.

When the state degenerates into gangsterism

However, the power of money leads to the abuse of state authority, which occurs when officials allow themselves to be corrupted. In Transparency International you can see the global corruption scale according to countries (https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022). Corruption also generates a kind of insensitivity of conscience, both in those who take advantage of it and in those who tolerate it. Thus a network of bad civil servants is created who parasitize on the fiscal contributions of the citizens. And it is not true that this cannot be cut. Any lawyer knows very well how to do it. And the saddest thing is that the state manages always and only the taxpayers’ money, using it so many times against the people themselves, exploiting and impoverishing them. This is happening right now in the USA, Canada and in the countries where Klaus Schwab’s globalism has gained acceptance for some of his plans.

If this moral erosion is not stopped, the vortexes of political power come to consider themselves the owners of the country, not allowing, for example, good investments when the investor refuses to pay for an official license. Thus, companies that could generate many jobs are rejected. Or professional licenses or academic degrees are abusively denied, or registrations that grant professional licenses to professors, scientists, lawyers, etc., are cancelled as a means of coercion to obey official dictates in medical or ideological matters. We saw this in the COVID 19 pandemic and in the ostracism that professors and scientists had to suffer for not bowing to the abusive pretensions of the government. This is happening in the USA, Germany and other model countries.

Forms of political banditry

Corruption by means of a few bills in an envelope is a thing of the past. Today the forms are much more sophisticated, depending on the situation: for example, receiving an offer to buy something in order to profit from its resale, or keeping a person in a position achieved through influence, or awarding a work or service to a specific company chosen previously, etc.

The pandemic revealed the existence of a whole global network of corrupting influences, managed by the agents of the Davos 2030 Agenda. They are those who seek to inoculate in our culture, of deep Christian roots, various absurd ideologies, such as genderism, LGTB, Woke and sex education of children. This process began in the USA and Canada, sponsored by a nefarious connivance between official entities and large American companies, which move trillions worldwide.

Other forms of political banditry are the leftist governments in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Argentina and others that unfortunately are degenerating politically towards the left. This is lamented by Gloria Alvarez, an important influencer in Guatemala, (.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfRwYcaL-k ) in a 28 minute address that is worth listening to. In Europe, even Spain is suffering from a leftist government that is trying by all means to deliver the country into the hands of the globalists. Evidently this struggle will end with a victory of the political forces mostly opposed to the left, as we are seeing right now in Chile.