People go underground when the above ground is unworkable. When enough business is underground, the underworld joins in, because unofficial is better than official. In an effort to maintain control over the economy, the Italians have rather strict controls of currency and metals trade.
Police blocked 500 bank accounts, and carried out 259 raids in houses and cash-for-gold shops linked to the ring, which had allegedly dealt in 4,500 kilograms of gold and 11,000 kilograms of silver only during the last year.
But the underground economy is the symptom, not a cause. It is the government control of the economy that makes it go bad, and forces people to go underground, or "escape to anarchy" in order to survive.
With the police harassing the anarchists, it sets up an opportunity for mobsters to protect people form the police. No police, no mobsters.
The problem is democracy, in which people believe they have a vote, and it counts. They believe they have the power and right to pick their leaders, who will in turn do as the people say. This is a kind of lack of commitment, having "others fight your battles" which necessarily means, when you don't get what you voted for, well, you cheat. Psych 101.
Psych 201: People want the impossible to work, and when it does not, they make an exception for themselves. Why not? it is their choice.
So give us state currency that gives us only a little bit of constant price rise so we can have free medicine and education and all sorts of cool free stuff. Ooooopsss.. impossible to do? An inherent contradiction? O well. Go underground.
In late Roman times people who made it to the frontier were arrested and sent back to their shops and farms, where they were obliged to work. And lose money, and rot. The state controlled everything. Eventually enough people escaped to anarchy to help bring down Rome.
Starting your own business is an escape to anarchy. It's legal although quite beset by the powers that be. But it is easier and safer to escape by starting a business in USA than to immigrate and start over.
For now.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Police blocked 500 bank accounts, and carried out 259 raids in houses and cash-for-gold shops linked to the ring, which had allegedly dealt in 4,500 kilograms of gold and 11,000 kilograms of silver only during the last year.
But the underground economy is the symptom, not a cause. It is the government control of the economy that makes it go bad, and forces people to go underground, or "escape to anarchy" in order to survive.
With the police harassing the anarchists, it sets up an opportunity for mobsters to protect people form the police. No police, no mobsters.
The problem is democracy, in which people believe they have a vote, and it counts. They believe they have the power and right to pick their leaders, who will in turn do as the people say. This is a kind of lack of commitment, having "others fight your battles" which necessarily means, when you don't get what you voted for, well, you cheat. Psych 101.
Psych 201: People want the impossible to work, and when it does not, they make an exception for themselves. Why not? it is their choice.
So give us state currency that gives us only a little bit of constant price rise so we can have free medicine and education and all sorts of cool free stuff. Ooooopsss.. impossible to do? An inherent contradiction? O well. Go underground.
In late Roman times people who made it to the frontier were arrested and sent back to their shops and farms, where they were obliged to work. And lose money, and rot. The state controlled everything. Eventually enough people escaped to anarchy to help bring down Rome.
Starting your own business is an escape to anarchy. It's legal although quite beset by the powers that be. But it is easier and safer to escape by starting a business in USA than to immigrate and start over.
For now.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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