Luca Esculapio – https://economicsuppression.org – luca@economicsuppression.org
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What are we talking about?
CANOVACCIO VERSION
This version of my piece with the same title aims at enabling anyone to explain to any audience the fundamentals of money and monetary manipulation, and their influence on the world and on the lives of all of us.
A canovaccio, in a figurative sense, is a written plot without specifying the exact lines, which are left to the improvisation of those who will perform it.
Here, “canovaccio” means: the text, in bold, is interspersed with notes in italics (Underline:) containing the fundamental concepts from the preceding text, which it is essential to take full note of.
This canovaccio version is used as follows: read the text as it is, once in its entirety, and then reread it as follows: pause at each note and discuss each concept to be emphasised: explain the concept to the audience and ask them for real examples of it until it is perfectly clear to them and they understand its full significance.
The purpose of all this is, in fact, to take note of fundamental concepts in all their significance. One can take note of things in a more or less superficial or profound way, and while a superficial acknowledgement is inconsequential and therefore useless, on the contrary, the more profound it is, the greater its consequences and therefore its usefulness.
Source: What are we talking about? (3 pages)
What are we talking about?
In order to understand thoroughly, let’s keep it simple.
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Concept: The value of simplicity; simplicity is looked down upon, yet it is fundamental.
Concept: Complex matters can be understood by breaking them down into simple parts and understanding those parts.
Examples: Examples of seemingly complicated things, and understanding them by breaking them down into simple parts.
Concept: All the real answers are fundamentally simple and bring about understanding.
Examples: Examples of untrue answers that are not simple and do not bring about understanding, and real answers that are simple and bring about understanding.
There’s a small island, where we are few; everyone produces something useful and we exchange it with barter.
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Concept: Let's apply simplicity to life, using a small and therefore simple example.
Concept: Life is based on survival factors: help, food, shelter, etc.
Examples: Examples of survival factors.
Concept: All survival factors must be produced: water in the stream is the raw material, water coming out of the tap is a product; someone built and maintains the aqueduct. The definition of “produce” is: to bring into existence, and therefore includes both products and services, as well as the work done.
Examples: Examples that all survival factors – products, services, work – are produced by someone.
Concept: To improve production, tasks are divided, and as a result, products are exchanged: some fish, some farm, some cook, etc.
Examples: Examples of division of tasks and exchange of products.
Barter has limits, though: yesterday I didn’t catch any fish, today you don’t want to eat potatoes, and so on, therefore we separate the two parts of barter by noting down the incomplete exchanges: I owe you a fish, you owe him a potato.
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Concept: Barter consists of two parts: product A from Tom to Dick and product B from Dick to Tom.
Concept: The limitations of bartering: those who have the product we need do not want our product; those who want our product have a product we do not need. Or, both parties would like the other's product, but one of them does not have it at the moment.
Examples: Examples of the limitations of bartering.
Concept: The recording of debts and credits is the third element that comes between the two parties involved in bartering and separates them, i.e. makes them independent of each other, thus beginning to overcome the limitations of bartering. Tom catches fish, Dick grows potatoes: today Dick gives a potato to Tom, who has not caught any fish, and it is recorded that Tom owes Dick a fish; tomorrow Tom catches a fish, gives it to Dick, and the record is cleared. It is called debt-credit recording because one person's debt is another person's credit.
Examples: Examples of the two parts of barter made independent by the recording of debts and credits.
Concept: The recording of a debt-credit gives value to the promise of a product: Dick accepts Tom's promise of a fish in exchange for a potato. Dick's trust allows Tom to move forward and perhaps even grow.
Examples: Examples of how debt-credit allows one to move forward and perhaps even grow.
Concept: To overcome the limitations of bartering, a second step is needed: debt-credit records must circulate. Today, Dick gives a potato to Tom, who has not caught any fish, and instead of noting that Tom owes Dick a fish, he notes that Tom owes a fish and nothing more. Then Dick takes that note and gives it to Harry in exchange for a loaf of bread. Tomorrow, Tom catches the fish, and instead of giving it to Dick, he gives it to Harry, and the record is cleared.
Examples: Examples of overcoming barter with the circulation of debt-credit records.
Concept: To overcome the limitations of bartering, a third step is needed: debt-credit records must be interchangeable. Tom, Dick and Harry agree that a fish, a potato and a loaf of bread are worth ten points each. Once this is done, today Dick gives a potato to Tom, who has not been fishing, and instead of noting that Tom owes a fish, he notes that Tom owes ten points. Dick then takes that note and gives it to Harry in exchange for a loaf of bread. Tomorrow, Harry will use that note to buy a fish from Tom, clearing the record, or a potato from Dick, and then Dick will use it to buy a fish from Tom, clearing the record.
Examples: Examples of overcoming barter with the circulation of interchangeable point records.
Concept: The recording of debts and credits in points is a type of money: ledger money; in Italy it is called: bill of exchange.
Then the owner of the beach of shells proposes we use his shells. We accept.
Underline:
Concept: Instead of using points to record debts and credits, Tom, Dick and Harry agree that a shell is worth ten points. The shell is a type of money: token money.
Concept: The purchasing power of something is the fact that someone is willing to accept that something in exchange for something else. Both products and money have purchasing power, but while products have real value in themselves, both ledger money and token money have no value in themselves.
Examples: Examples of the intrinsic value of products, and how money has no intrinsic value.
Concept: Both ledger money and token money have no value, but serve only to separate the two parts of the barter, facilitating the exchange and thus the production of what has value: the products.
Examples: Examples of how money facilitates the exchange, and therefore the production of goods.
And in exchange for the shells we give him fishes and potatoes…
Fishes and potatoes are hard work to us, shells cost the beach owner nothing.
No one comes to wonder, “why on earth he alone must have this privilege?”
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Concept: In exchange for what do you get purchasing power? This is the most fundamental question of all. A potato, a fish, a loaf of bread and a shell all have purchasing power, but... Tom, Dick and Harry had to procure and spend time, labour, equipment, raw materials, energy, business risks, etc. in order to obtain a potato, a fish and a loaf of bread. The owner of the beach did not have to procure or spend anything to obtain a shell. The purchasing power of a product has a cost; the purchasing power of shells is cost-free.
Examples: Examples of products, and what you need to obtain and spend to get them.
Concept: Being the only ones to obtain purchasing power at no cost, while everyone else has to bear the costs of obtaining it, is a privilege.
Examples: Examples of why being the only ones to gain purchasing power at no cost is a privilege.
But that’s not all: in a race where only one rides a bike and all the others run on foot, who wins?
At every turn, the beach owner can offer more: shells cost nothing to him.
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Concept: When they go to Tom to buy fish, to Dick to buy potatoes, and to Harry to buy bread, Tom, Dick, and Harry's purchasing power is limited by the fact that they have to incur costs to obtain it, while the beach owner's purchasing power is not limited by anything, because the shells cost him nothing. Without needing anything else, thanks to this alone, he can always offer more in any exchange. And if the others accept his offers, he buys everything and causes prices to skyrocket, leaving everyone else without products or without enough purchasing power to buy them.
Examples: Examples of what happens when there is only one buyer whose purchasing power is not limited by anything because it is cost-free.
How does it end? Simple: sooner or later the beach owner takes possession of everything. And of everyone.
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Concept: When only one can have purchasing power at no cost, if others accept his offers, it is only a matter
of time before he becomes master of everything, and consequently master of everyone.
Examples: Examples of how someone with purchasing power at no cost sooner or later becomes master of
everything, and consequently master of everyone.
But that’s still not all: so far the beach owner limited himself to give us shells in exchange for fishes and potatoes; now he begins to lend them to us at interest.
No one comes to wonder, “if we must return more shells than we received to the only one who has the privilege to put them into circulation, from whom are we going to get the extra ones?”
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Concept: If the owner of the beach gives you a hundred shells, and then wants back both the capital and the interest: he wants a hundred and twenty back, where do you get the extra ones? Only he can give them to you. And if he gives you these other twenty shells, and then wants twenty-five back, where do you get the extra ones? Only he can give them to you. He gave you a hundred, you owe him a hundred and twenty; he gave you a hundred and twenty, you owe him a hundred and forty-five; and so on.
Examples: Examples of how things turn out on the island if the beach owner wants both the capital and the interest back.
Concept: If the owner of the beach gives you a hundred shells, and then wants only the interest back: he wants twenty returned, you are left with eighty. And then sixty, and then forty, and then twenty, and then zero. And you still owe him a hundred. And where will you get them? Only he can give them to you.
Examples: Examples of how things turn out on the island if the beach owner only wants the interest back.
How does it end? Exactly as before: the beach owner takes possession of everything and everyone. Only, it happens more quickly and more inexorably.
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Concept: If you have to return more shells to the beach owner than he gave you, he is the only one who can give you more, and each time he wants more back than he gave you, sooner or later he will start demanding something else besides shells.
Examples: Examples of how things turn out on the island when the beach owner starts demanding something other than shells.
But that too is still not all: shells are like blood carrying oxygen, to be healthy they must be abundant.
On the contrary, the beach owner turns off the tap of shells, and begins to strangle us.
What do we do when we gasp for air? We sell out what is more precious to us: our boat, our land, our home and our future. For a crust of bread.
Guess to whom?
Underline:
Concept: Money facilitates the exchange, and therefore the production of goods. So, just like blood, the right amount of money is needed: abundant without being excessive.
Examples: Examples of how abundant but not excessive money helps trade and therefore production.
Concept: Scarce money stifles production and trade.
Examples: Examples of how scarce money stifles trade and therefore production.
Concept: Low production and exchanges put survival at risk, and when survival is at risk, reserves are depleted, and in order to survive, people are willing to sell them off below their true value.
Examples: Examples of low production and exchanges causing survival at risk and therefore selling off.
And no one comes to wonder, “where does this burning smell come from?”
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Concept: When a shortage of money causes a crisis in production, exchange and survival, the only one not affected by the crisis is the owner of the beach, because he is the only one who can create purchasing power at no cost. And so, when everyone else is selling off their assets because they are in crisis, he is the only one who can buy. And he buys below cost. He causes the crisis, and he is the only one who benefits from it, to the detriment of everyone else.
Examples: Examples of how, in the event of money shortages, production and exchange crises, and survival at risk, the beach owner will ultimately purchase everything below cost.
How does it end? Exactly as before: even more quickly and more inexorably.
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Concept: To reiterate the previous concept and emphasise it: when only one can have purchasing power at no cost, if others accept his offers, it is only a matter of time before he becomes master of everything, and consequently master of everyone.
Examples: Other examples of how someone with cost-free purchasing power sooner or later becomes master of everything, and consequently master of everyone.
If you have a parasite, you’re always hungry while you keep on losing weight. And what little remains is not enough for all.
How does it end? We rip each other apart.
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Concept: The parasite steals energy, so while on the one hand you feel hungrier than normal, on the other you waste away.
Concept: If everyone is hungrier than normal and eats more than normal, sooner or later there will not be enough for everyone, and we will start ripping each other apart to compete for what little there is.
Examples: Examples of how the arrival of a parasite leads us to tear each other apart.
And no one thinks to all turn together to the one that puts us against each other: the parasite.
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Concept: Conflicts, if they actually break out, are always caused by a third party that secretly stirs them up, because without the action of a third party, the two parties in conflict would sooner or later come to an agreement.
Concept: Third-party action always consists of a form of “divide et impera”, “divide and rule”: setting people against each other.
Examples: Examples of third-party actions and consequences.
Concept: The solution to any conflict is to collaborate and discover the third party: when the two parties in conflict discover the third party, they cease to be in conflict with each other and turn together towards the third party.
Examples: Examples of collaboration and discovery of the third party.
So?
Se accettiamo che le conchiglie abbiano potere d’acquisto come i pesci e le patate, allora dobbiamo porci la domanda fondamentale, e dobbiamo darci una risposta:
Who is the legitimate owner of the purchasing power of shells?
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Concept: When does the purchasing power of money come into being? It comes into being when Tom, Dick and Harry accept shells from the beach owner in exchange for fish, potatoes and loaves of bread. It comes into being the moment someone is willing to accept it, for the first time since its creation, in exchange for real value: products.
Examples: Examples of when the purchasing power of money comes into being.
Concept: In whose pocket does the purchasing power of money comes into being? It comes into being in the pocket of the beach owner. It comes into being in the pocket of those who, for the first time since its creation, receive real value in exchange for it: products.
Examples: Examples of in whose pocket the purchasing power of money comes into being.
Concept: What does "ownership of money" mean? The owner of the money is the owner of the beach. He is the one in whose pocket the purchasing power of money comes into being. In all exchanges after the first, money and products constantly change ownership, but the point is that all subsequent owners of money give products in exchange for it.
Examples: Examples of exchanges: the first in which money comes into being and enters into circulation, and subsequent ones in which it continues to circulate.
Concept: Only products have real value; money has no real value and serves only to exchange products. So who should money belong to? To those who produce real value: products. The shells belong to Tom, Dick and Harry, NOT to the owner of the beach.
Examples: Examples of the fact that the purchasing power of money belongs to those who produce real value, because money serves only to exchange products.
Concept: How is ownership of money divided? If money belongs to those who produce, then it belongs to them in proportion to what they produce: if it is agreed that a fish, a potato, a loaf of bread are worth ten points, then ten points are due for each fish, potato and loaf of bread produced.
Examples: Examples of money creation and distribution in proportion to production.
The reason is not just that it is only fair that things belong to their legitimate owner.
There is another reason as well, equally important if not even more:
What happens when we allow a thief to steal that purchasing power?
It happens that sooner or later the thief takes possession of everything. And of everyone.
Underline:
Concept: Either money belongs to its sole legitimate owner, or it is only a matter of time before the thief, any thief, takes possession of everything, and therefore of everyone. It is either one or the other; there are no other alternatives.
Examples: Examples that either money belongs to its sole legitimate owner, or it is only a matter of time before the thief takes possession of everything, and therefore of everyone.
Being someone’s property means being slaves.
Hence, we’re talking about freedom or slavery.
That’s what we’re talking about.
What does it matter? This is what is happening everywhere:
the thief, with the stolen purchasing power, is buying out the world.
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Concept: This is really happening, right before our eyes: we are all seeing, or at least we have heard, that wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated; we have already passed the point where 1% owns more than the 99%.
Examples: Examples of wealth becoming increasingly concentrated.
Concept: The real cause of wealth concentration is the theft of the ownership of money. Do you believe that the 1% get rich because they are more talented? No amount of talent is sufficient to produce this degree of wealth concentration. The only factor powerful enough to produce it is the theft of the ownership of money.
Examples: Examples of the power of the theft of the ownership of money in causing wealth concentration.
But even that is still not all.
People are of three kinds: wise, stupid, evil. You see it in what others are to them.
Wise people help others to live, too.
Stupid people don’t care about others and anything.
Evil people betray to keep others from living.
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Concept: You can tell what kind of person someone is by how they treat others: do they help them, ignore them, or betray them?
Examples: Observed examples of what others are to a person.
On the one hand, a wise person would never dream of stealing the world, and only dreams of others being well, which is quite different from owning them.
On the other hand, a person dedicated to stealing the world is not just a thief, he’s also evil; and he is not content with stealing it because the real reason why he’s stealing it is keeping others from living.
The proof is that if purchasing power were his ultimate aim, once obtained he would be appeased; and instead it is just a means, because he is using it to destroy others.
Destroying others means reducing them to nothing: physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Turning them into slave zombies and into ashes to ashes is not helping them; whoever thinks so is socially ill.
Hence, we’re talking about life or death.
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Concept: For evil people, purchasing power is not an end in itself, but merely a means to destroy others.
Examples: Examples of purchasing power, and power in general, used to destroy others.
That’s what we’re talking about.
What does it matter? This is what is happening everywhere:
the thief is not only stealing our world; he is also destroying us.
It is not difficult to verify. It is enough to observe knowing what to look for.
And someone wisely pointed out: “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
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Concept: “By their fruits ye shall know them”: people and things are judged by what they produce.
Examples: Observed examples of results produced by individuals.
Concept: The evil person is not content with reducing others to misery and slavery; his real goal is to annihilate them: to reduce them to nothing, physically, mentally, spiritually. It is important to know this, so that we know what to expect from them and therefore do not let our guard down.
Examples: How dangerous it can be not to know what to expect from evil people; how useful it can be to know what to expect from them.
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