Components of Hierarchal Economic Ideology

Findings:

• Early religious temples utilized the power of the people’s shared beliefs to effectively disconnect them from the land; from there, laborers were subsequently disconnected from their labor value, the products of their labor, their shared beliefs, their Liberty, and—most importantly—one another. As hierarchal oppression transitioned into the current economics, the divide and conquer strategy of hierarchal disconnection was maintained by placing a series of financial paywalls between these disconnections, where various ‘owners’ and intermediaries continue to parasitically extract from the only true source of value, which is labor.
• Per the Natural Law of biological economics, labor is the only source of positive value; therefore, all value extraction (from profit, rent, taxes, hierarchal middlemen, inflation, etc.) is a tax on labor, which is ultimately imposed on the laborer. Within the arbitrary environment of hierarchal economics, those who wish to succeed would ultimately (and logically) strive to own the laborer versus be the laborer.
• 1913 was not a good year for Natural Law, as Congress voted to relinquish control of their money powers to private interests, meanwhile ratifying an amendment to make direct taxation of labor value (‘income tax’) legal, neither of which would have been acceptable to the nation’s founders. Importantly, A) Congress did not (and cannot) give away its Money Powers and B) private money creation is not backed by the Constitution, nor has it ever been legitimized by any Supreme Court ruling.
• In 2020, the U.S. spent approximately $794.5 million a day on five ongoing conflicts: the Somali Civil War, War in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and the remaining time in Afghanistan, for a grand cost of around $290 billion.^[001] The cost of incarcerating U.S. citizens in 2020 was $87.5 billion.^[002] The cost of theft and fraud to business was $119 billion. ^[003] Although it is counted as profit on U.S. GDP, the cost of drug abuse—alcohol, tobacco, opioids, and illicit drug use—totaled $232 billion in healthcare costs alone.^[004] The healthcare costs of climate change and fossil fuel pollution was estimated at $880 billion for 2020^[005] (the meat industry accounts for 14.5% of climate pollution^[006] and like fossil fuels, are counted as a positive in the GDP tally). There were 6.1 million motor vehicle crashes in 2020^[007] resulting in 38,824 deaths^[008]; the estimated cost was $435.2 billion.^[009] Gun accidents and deaths cost the U.S. economy $557 billion in 2020.^[010] The federal budget for 2020 was $6.6 trillion, $3.1 trillion over budget.^[011]
  • The above assessment is lenient; it only includes the external violence that we can eliminate at any time if we simply choose to do so. Internal suffering—such as cancer ($208.9 billion in 2020^[012]) or cardiovascular disease (another $320 billion^[013])—is exacerbated by factors whose causation is more difficult to correlate (ongoing transgenerational trauma, workplace stress, or proximity to known carcinogens, for example), though violence and disconnection is most assuredly at the root of all of it.
  • Economics is the medium through which life is communicated; simply judging by the above numbers, the goal of hierarchal economics is violence; further statistical analysis would show that it is also excellent at perpetuating inequality. Separate cannot be equal. Hierarchal disconnection thwarts homeostatic balance; the resulting inequality triggers violence, which is simply the communication that disconnection exists. We currently have no avenue to mend these disconnections, so we are forced to live with the violence that hierarchal economics creates.

Approximately 5,000 years ago, hierarchal economics was established through early religious temples that were subsequently overrun by violent oppressors; this sequence of events forcibly disconnected people from resources, the products (or positive value) of their labor, and each other, among other inconveniences; these practices remain unchanged to the present day.

Through this forced disconnection, a second source of value was created—negative value—which simply represents the parasitic extraction of positive value from the labor of others. Hierarchal economics operates under the pretense that both of these opposing sources of value exist; many claim that the two cancel each other out: positive (or real) value, created through labor (visualized as ‘credit’), and negative (hierarchal) value (visualized as ‘debt’), but hierarchal ‘debt money’ has no real value (and never did, regardless of attempts to tie it a ‘gold standard’); only labor can produce positive value. The ruse perpetrated by hierarchal economics works because the exchange of institutionally imposed debt (negative value) for real labor (positive value) occurs beneath the façade of a ‘currency’ that pretends to measure both.

Hierarchal debt is simply a hole into which the ‘borrower’ shovels the value of their labor. Long before this hole is refilled and debt money is allegedly ‘cancelled out,’ the capitalizer has siphoned off and essentially laundered this imaginary money through mechanisms such as ‘economic rent,’ profit, or inflation that become intermixed with real labor value. When the buck stops, it is the laborer-turned-consumer who is ‘left holding the bag;’ Their losses are measured in statistics such as profit margin, inflation or personal (and national) debt.

Because the ‘debt’ portion of hierarchal economic exchange is not based on any real value, its ‘monetary’ price can be routinely altered; while some pretend that the value leaks out of hierarchal debt money each year (or that the currency is ‘elastic’), the leak is coming from the extraction of labor value, as laborers are forced to purchase the products of their own labor at inflated prices. Biological economics (and Natural Law) asserts that labor is the only source of positive value, meaning that all monetary additions to a product or service beyond wages essentially functions as ‘Value-Added’ Taxation, which is passed back onto the laborer when they inevitably become the consumer; any nonreciprocal extraction of labor value is taxation, whether it is imposed by the private or the public sector.

Until March of 2020, the true ‘gold standard’ through which banks were allowed to peddle their imaginary debt money was none other than the positive value of labor, given over to private banks as ‘demand deposits.’ U.S. Government is similarly backed by the laborer, through taxation of their labor value; upon even the slightest reflection, one might reason that labor itself should represent more than enough ‘taxation’ to cover any debt a ‘free’ people owe to their society. Instead, government, private banks, and the capitalizers who control them are all backed by the full faith and credit of the United States laborer.

Ironically, while imaginary hierarchal debt money is allowed to purchase and own real property, when labor money—which represents the only real value—is given over as taxation, it purchases but DOES NOT OWN any of the ‘public’ investments it makes (in infrastructure, banks, energy, communication, agriculture, education, transit, healthcare, housing, research & development, et al.).

Taxation is the use of earned wages to purchase something that would legally give hierarchal ownership (‘property rights’) to private individuals; calling it ‘taxation’ nonsensically exempts people from owning the products they purchase, though the process for acquiring hierarchal ownership of ‘property’ is virtually the same (as an example, Wall Street collectively invested in several hundred thousand foreclosures they caused during the 2007-2008 financial crisis; mutual funds represents another collective investment in which ‘dividends’ accrue).

Importantly, the U.S. Constitution—and the Supreme Court that interprets it—has never legitimized private (debt) money creation because it cannot; there is simply no constitutional language that justifies its existence. The ‘originalists’ who founded the United States sought connection through a central government and a single currency, disseminated through a single National Public (‘People’s’) Bank; meanwhile, they believed taxation of someone’s labor went against Natural Law and therefore did not include it in the original ‘articles’ of the Constitution. In other words, the founders understood enough about Natural Law to get some of its main principles correct.

When the mantle of governmental power was passed onto future generations, however, the American citizen was eventually disconnected from their money powers (which were handed over to the privately controlled Federal Reserve), and their labor value (through the Sixteenth Amendment, which allowed Congress to tax individual labor income). Interestingly, Congressional permission to publicly tax labor value and privately create debt money both occurred in the same year: 1913.

Except for the years when America had a National Bank working for it, money has proved to be a consistent source of misery. Since 1913, inflation has risen 2,964.3%; wealth concentration spiked just after the creation of the Federal Reserve, then again just before the Great Depression; since the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, wealth disparity has again risen to unsustainable heights.

The illusion of ‘property rights’ is the linchpin of hierarchal economics, which can only be defended with weapons in hand, as no convincing verbal argument exists for it (no one has yet arrived to or departed from the Earth carrying any property; even our individual cells are on temporary assignment). The mechanism of intraspecific hierarchal property rights allows for several disconnections within the otherwise circular flow of the natural economy; though we take them for granted now, these obstructions conflict with the system of Natural Law and therefore generate numerous negative externalities that can only be repaired at the source. Here are several of these disconnections:

Disconnection 1: Between the Earth and the people (enforced through property ownership).

Purpose: to extract labor.

• Technically, people still own their labor; however, there is nowhere to freely exercise this Natural Law (thus, the only source of positive value comes at a cost to the one who helps provide it).

Disconnection 2: Between each person and their Liberty (enforced through business ownership).

Purpose: to extract profit.

• The laborer’s Liberty to choose has been severed from the mechanism of his or her labor and redistributed to the owner as a nonreciprocal obligation; the owner assumes the role of medium of production, which incurs risk in hierarchal economic arrangements. Thus, wages only need cover the laborer’s ‘use value.’

Disconnection 3: Between each person and their labor value (enforced through hierarchal government).

Purpose: to extract taxation.

• The laborer pays for the mediums of connection—such as transportation, energy, or communication lines—through which the private sector often extracts further labor value; taxation is very much the ‘cross we have to bear.’

Disconnection 4: Between laborers and the products of their labor (enforced through traditions such as feudalism or slavery).

Purpose: separates supply from demand, laborer from consumer.

• A tree is a tree until labor turns it into a house; who owns the tree is nine-tenths of hierarchal law.

Disconnection 5: Between the products of labor and their price (implemented through hierarchal value).

Purpose: to maximize debt to secure maximal labor, which in turn maximizes potential profit.

• The number of so-called ‘property owners’ allowed in the economic cycle creates successive ‘value added taxes’ that further diminish labor value.

Disconnection 6: Between the consumer and their shared beliefs (implemented through an ‘elastic currency’).

Purpose: to extract economic rent, inflation, price gouging, etc.

• Hierarchal economics comes with its own version of liberty (‘consumerism’), where people are afforded the binary choice to either connect to—or disconnect from—a myriad of ‘consumer choices,’ which are subsequently used against them, as a product’s price is allowed to increase based on the number (agglomeration) of consumers who share the belief in its value (therefore, in hierarchal economics, consumers do not own their shared beliefs).

Disconnection 7: between the people and their shared belief in money (enforced through the Federal Reserve).

Purpose: to cast a wide net of hierarchal debt out into the financial waters in the hope of reeling in the highest possible amount of pure labor value. Currently, the only universally held shared beliefs are the ones imposed by hierarchal institutions (money, property rights, taxation, gun rights, hierarchal economics, et al.), none of which allow the people sharing the belief an individual ‘share’ in the value of it. A ‘right’—which must be defended by violence—can be turned into a reciprocal conferment simply by giving people a ‘share’ in the value generated—to ‘buy into’ the belief—rather than forcing the belief on them under threat of violence.