Abe Lincoln:

„Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.“

Quelle: Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the USA – Part 1

Ach was – heute verdient man Geld, indem man Geld investiert und verspekuliert. Für was noch körperliche Arbeit, wenn man im Bürostuhl sitzen kann und die Aktienkurse ohne grosse zutun den oberen Bildschirmrand sprengen?

Der ganze Artikel ist übrigens äusserst verschwörerischer Natur. Wer also wieder mal schmunzeln möchte – nume hü!

Pepys was captivated by the familiar but pernicious notion that, instead of working for a living, a person could have his money “work for him.” Aristotle had spoken against this concept 2,000 years earlier: “The most hated sort of wealth getting and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most unnatural.” (1258b Politics)

This, of course, gets to the heart of the myth of consumer driven growth that infects much of the economic thinking in the Western world. More choice and lower prices are great benefits of globalisation. But real wealth is only added to when people make things and sell them.

You can buy plenty of things once you’re rich. But you can’t get rich buying things. Great economies are built on production, not consumption. […]

[…] we have all been duped into believing that service-based economies are the future. If they are, it’s going to be a very grim future indeed, at least for people whose financial lives are hostage to events beyond their control.

Quelle: U.S. Dollar Rally Not Based on Fundamentals