The Simple Truth

Humans are Babies.

If you fail to understand the true effect of government policies, you don't really understand economic and investments because you have only half of the equation. People's daily action of controlling their personal lives always works as a natural force to counter the ill-fates of government policies. Naturally free market forces always assert its course fighting the re-routes. Government policies always end in opposite of their intention.

Prosperity in a paper money world is an illusion. An illusion lasts sometimes more than a persons lifetime. That's why many do not notice the truth. History shows dishonest money-system always destroys the economy and livelihood of citizens. Government and its policies are like a cat chasing its own tail. It gets so dizzy at the end. It just collapses. Its citizens are like being picked up high into the air and then let go. And each time, it is getting higher into the air, then let go.

Government is in the business of protection. When human beings moved into the Agricultural Age starting to own properties, protection was needed. Groups of armed men were employees of productive groups and individuals. Government is designated and empowered using force to protect its citizens from undesirable forces from other human groups. Taxes are nothing but protection fees. The passports widely used in the 1900s, is a public announcement of which protection group one belongs to. If you are a US citizen, your passport is a receipt proving you have paid your protection fees. If you haven't, you'll be thrown in jail by the same people who were hired to protect you.

Government should never involve in the business of money. It should only get paid for performing its service of providing protection to its employers physical bodies and properties from outside undesirable forces. People can always take care of their own money matters better than any government. A simple proof is everyone making numerous personal decisions to go through each day. Each person is leading oneself through life. And they enhance each other by voluntary exchanges of knowledge and properties moving the community, region, country and eventually the world onto a better place. Each person decides what's good and what's not good individually by making their own choices.

Without money, governments cannot meddle in peoples lives. Without money, governments cannot stage as many wars as in 1900s killing record numbers of human beings.  Most people want only improved living. All the creations leading to advancement of human lives are from the people, not the government. All achievements are individual achievements. Even within todays government, there is nothing but individuals working in a monopolized environment to perform their tasks. If these tasks are opened to all citizens, wouldnt there be better solutions? Instead of small appointed groups, any person with better solution can step forward to present to the public by actually performing it, not just on papers or discussions. Isnt it illogical that instead of letting everyone to come up with the best solution, we let a few people who have no expert knowledge to decide issues of how we should live our lives? Wouldn't one million minds thinking better than five or ten minds with hidden agendas? How can a group of people who knows only how to use force, can bring about peaceful life to others? The only occasion could be on Sunday in church when you happen to sit next to the mobs!

Majority of human beings are gentle and peaceful people. Only a minority likes to reap others profits for nothing. Thats why governments are formed to deter aggression by those groups. How the hell the very same government can end up reaping its own employers, or customers? It is almost a norm that human beings do not value themselves as individuals and yet they live their lives everyday as individuals. Throughout history, they took up the idea of being selfless in societies as religion. They consider their own lives as worthless when they put themselves into a mass. Soldiers died to prove other peoples ideals. Citizens vote away their own control of daily living. It is no different from in the Bible mentioning how people believed in Pagan gods. They are so insecure in life that they must install some God figures on earth. And yet it is them who take their steps one day at a time to the end of their journey in life. But then they plunge themselves from one human tragedy to another. Instead of living for their own life, they end up living for others.

Human do not know they are free on earth. They still think they are babies. A loud sound of cry will bring a huge blurry image to satisfy their needs. The Bible tells them they are free on earth but please behave, or else...... The Koran tells them they have to remember their creator Ala but they can do pretty much anything while living on earth. All good books are declarations of human freedom on earth. But the blurry image when they were babies is still deep in their minds. They want someone to bring them what they can't get for themselves. They are so afraid of facing their uncertain future. They remember the authoritative figure heads in their families, who gave them things they needed. When they become adults, they want yet someone authoritative to replace those images. Babies grew to be adults eventually.  Most humans never did.

So it goes, humans plunge themselves from one crisis to another. When they are catching their breath in between, they thank the leaders they worship. They never thank themselves enough.