How economic slavery works
“We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”
Horace Greeley - (1811-1872) editor of the New York Tribune
If you were to find that we were in fact in a kind of economic slavery, you could say its because of some greedy powerful men that are evil. But they could not have this power, if it were not given to them by those who were subordinate and acquiesced… whether through intimidation, ignorance or coercion to this servitude. In today’s society it is because of a combination of these reasons. We are enslaved in this way, and the method has existed since the time of Babylon and perhaps even before. What this short paper is, is a quick primer about how money works.
