The Economy Is Completely Rigged - Here's How
Dave and Claire saved for more than a decade to fulfill their dream of buying a five-acre farm and starting a premium organic greens business.
When they finally had enough, they put an offer on a farm, sold their little house, and waited for their overpriced lawyers to close the deals.
Their home sale went through, but the farm purchase didnât.
Then Covid hit.
The price of places in the countryside nearly doubled.
Dave and Claire were left homeless and businesslessâââenslaved under a landlord, paying more to lease a moldy rental than they wouldâve paid to own a flourishing farm.
I could see the sorrow in Claireâs eyes.
I could see the fury in Daveâs.
New wealth is created when humans apply work time to Godâs free natural resources.
Even though weâre totally disconnected from it today, the reality is that 100% of the goods we enjoy still come from the land.
Both the McDonaldâs French fries and the stainless steel deep fryer that cooks the fries come from the land.
The cars we drive and the clothes we wear come from the land.
The coffee or tea you drink and the screen youâre reading this article on come from the land.
Even digital products like audiobooks and Bitcoin are actually still physical bits of information stored on servers created from the land.
New usable wealth is created when humans apply work-time to Godâs land.
Thatâs how all wealth is created.
And the opposite is also true:
If humans donât work or donât have free access to Godâs land, they suffer poverty and need.
When people like Dave and Claire are denied access to Godâs land, theyâre unable to apply their time and work to His free resources to create and contribute new wealth to others, such as organic leafy greens.
Imagine you want to start a business producing honey.
Or you want to build furniture.
Or you just need a home, water, heat, or food.
You have three options:
1) Rent monopolized land/resources at a profit to someone else (a landlord)
2.) Borrow monopolized money to buy monopolized land/resources at a profit to someone else (a lender and a land/resource monopolizer)
3.) Sell your labour at a discount to create a profit margin for someone else (a capitalist shareholder), so you can buy monopolized land/resources at a profit to someone else (a land/resource monopolizer
The current privatization and monopolization of land and resources mean everyone has to submit to economic exploitation just to survive.
And it gets worse.
Because these resource-monopolizing profiteers now have principal and profits to spend, thanks to the work of landless workers, the rich can outbid everyone else for other assets.
Which is exactly what they doâââwhich makes the problem worse and worse with each passing generation.
Our current mammonomic system guarantees homelessness, ever-increasing prices, ever-increasing debt, ever-increasing rent, and way more work than is necessary for an ordinary person to have enough.
Itâs an unbelievably profitable treadmill that the elite establishment resource-hoarding class simply will not let human mice get off.
The entire economy is founded on exploitation.
When the Bible says âdo justice,â how can there ever be justice if the entire economic system is founded on injustice?
A belief in human ownership of Godâs property ultimately betrays an underlying belief that humans created in the image of God do not actually have the right to life, liberty, food, shelter, or water.
They only have the right to these things if they first make a profit for resource monopolizers.
This is evil.
This is wrong.
We must reinstate proportional land rights for all.
Itâs that simple.
Itâs the biblical way to ensure everyone always has free access to the resources required for human survival.
If weâre going to continue to allow individuals to amass more land than they need, then at the very least, they must be forced to pay an annual land monopolization charge.
Because land monopolization without recompense to everyone else is theft.
Moral justice dictates that resource-hoarders must pay a fee to the community for their exclusive enjoyment of what rightfully belongs to the community.
Call it a âCommons Share.â
Real, true, fundamental, economic justice requires land rights for all, or a land monopolization charge to reimburse everyone excluded by monopolists from accessing Godâs free resources required for survival.
I obviously donât trust secular capitalist/communist/socialist governments and personally prefer the decentralization of land into the hands of all individuals, but a land monopolization rebate is at least a tiny step in the right direction away from the slavery of Mammon, toward the economic freedom of the invading Kingdom of God.
The need for fundamental economic justice will become more vital (and far more obvious) when a handful of AI techbro financier trillionaires monopolize all of the worldâs resources.
Theyâre well on their way.