Economics by L. Ron Hubbard - On Economics - L. Ron Hubbard Humanitarian: Freedom Fighter


	“By being a producing animal, the cow is made to surrender the lot. She does not need her own milk, cannot use her calves and is also made to surrender her own body for meat. In return she gets a sloppy barnyard, a thistle pasture, barking dogs and abuse. “Sentient or not, intelligent or stupid, the cow yet sets us a fine example of the perfect citizen of the state. “The perfect citizen (from a suppressive governmental viewpoint) is one who demands nothing and produces everything and even surrenders her own body on demand; the ideal citizen; the perfect factory worker; the complete soldier; the praised comrade.”

There is an answer to all this. If these isms all tend to a total state, then the obvious rebuttal is a no-state. This alone would be an opposition to the total state.

As this is instinctive in man—to oppose his enslavery—people manifest their personal revolt in various ways.

They cannot simply overwhelm a well-armed government. So their revolt takes the form of inaction and inefficiency.

Russia and Cuba, for two, are going on the rocks of individual inefficiency and inaction. They do not see it as a revolt as it hasn’t any peaks. The grain and cane just don’t come up, the trains somehow don’t run and the bread doesn’t get baked.

America and England, driven still by some faint remaining spark of “free enterprise,” muddle along. But the economic squeeze is too great for this long to continue. Income tax, bank and state loans, all the evils are there waiting.

Sensing the coming total ownership of all, the worker even in the US and England begins to put on the brakes. A good day’s work today was an hour’s work a century ago. Strikes enthusiastically paralyze anything they can. Inefficiency and inaction are the order of the day.

Not clever, the capitalist, the commissar, the great socialist do not believe anyone has penetrated their actual intent and so continue to twist economies about in the hope of convincing the people—who strike, won’t really work, and get more inefficient.

The societies of Earth, whether East or West, are all approaching the same end—dissolution by the personal people’s revolt. The revolt has no name, no leader, no banner, no glory. It only has a common end in view—the end of all states and all economic systems. And surely the people will win.

Recently children in a park in Russia became the subject of government horror by developing a barter system, exchanging toys for toys, an act which was duly chastised as “capitalistic.” The Russian word values are shaky, for to be capitalistic, they would have had to develop an interest system of recompense for the loan of the toys, not the barter system.

So long as there is a supply and as long as a demand can be generated, some form of goods exchange system will develop.

There are innumerable combinations of supply and demand action. There is a reluctant supply and the demand by force—a system commonly followed by troops or feudal barons, or simply robbers.

There is the eager supply action aided by creating a demand by advertising, a system we know as business and at which Madison Avenue is so adept. Man finds this the most pleasant of the systems, but it has a limitation in that it demands, in return, money, and causes people to demand pay in order to buy the advertised goods.

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