Como crescemos?

Threnody • 7 days ago
There is more here. What is consumption? Look at the most obvious example: A person consuming food, eats the food to produce waste products that indeed no one uses for anything else, and maintains his life. His life is used, typically, among other things to produce other goods and/or services later offered in trade. He consumes to live, and with his life he produces other values to trade. In trade, he obtains other values he needs and/or wants for the other endeavors of his life, and more food to consume to live, etc.
Now. Take an example of one large farm that is the only farm, that produces the only food for a community. The farmer produces nothing else but food, which he trades with the people of the community. The farmer gets everything else he needs or wants from the other people in the community by trading food with them. The members of the community get and consume all of their food from the farm by trading with the farmer, using their own lives they sustain with this food to produce all the values they then trade with the farmer and each other, for all of the other things they need and/or want including the food; etc.
What bit in all that is truly consumed? The food waste products. All else is profit for the individuals of the community, ever increasing in summation, ultimately obtained from the energy of the sun and the process of plant and animal growth in nature, and the productive choices from the minds of men and their labor in production (sustained by the food derived from the farmer's thought and effort, from his life, which he puts to use in directing the energies of the sun, plants, animals, etc.)
So. Do you see the little bit of true consumption (poo), and the great multiplying production driven by the sun, natural forces, and the mind and labor of man?
You could do the same derivation with the Ferrari listed above in the article. At the end of the process there is only a tiny bit of poo in consumption and a huge mountain of production even and especially in the ostensible act of buying and driving a Ferrari.
Where is the evil? The evil is found in counterfeiting the tool of indirect exchange - both in it's creation as counterfeit money by the fed, and by the magnification of this counterfeit in fractional reserve lending. When you sit and think about what that process does, conceptually, you will realize that it means the power of government through counterfeiting the tool of exchange, allowed someone to obtain and use something from someone else, not by trading another value to them, but by trading a counterfeit unit of exchange to them. The counterfeit money does in fact in practice exchange value for value in every trade that it is used in. (Don't freak out here, OC, -smile ) But it exchanges not a value that the person trading it owns, but a 'fractional suction' of value that everyone else has produced. Think that over. A transaction that occurs between the farmer trading food he has produced, with the, let's say, owner of a business that has prospered on loans from a bank lending by fractional reserves which were obtained from a principle lender, who obtained them from fed fiat money creation, does in fact cause a trade of real value for real value, except that the value that the business owner trades is NOT HIS.
When counterfeit money is used in trade (fiat money, further inflated through fractional reserve action) some of the value that everyone else has produced is stolen from them in the action of that transaction and handed to the producer of a real good/service, with the person trading the fiat money receiving the good or service for the value he has stolen from everyone else.
When, finally, the counterfeit money is 'evenly' distributed across all people, then the stealing is done (for that round.) Those touching and trading with the fiat money at the beginning (and fractionally less so as the process continues through trade after trade over time) have simply stolen real goods/services from everyone else.
To the extent that any of the thieves purchase food, eat it, then poop waste, or purchase some other good that they then destroy or wear out to no further use, then they have truly "consumed" other people's wealth. But the real issue, the real evil, is that they have STOLEN the goods and services other people produce with their lives --- not so much the ones that they got in trade with their fiat money, but the summation of a fraction of the value that is in every good / service that EVERYONE produces.
The nearer a person is to the fed fiat money fabrication in terms of counting the transactions further and further from that point, the greater a thief that person is (or made, unknowingly to be).
Let us ask. Who are these people?