From Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
When an animal wants to obtain something either of a man or of another animal, it has no other means of persuasion but to gain the favour of those whose service it requires. A puppy fawns upon its dam, and a spaniel endeavours by a thousand attractions to engage the attention of its master who is at dinner, when it wants to be fed by him. Man sometimes uses the same arts with his brethren, and when he has no other means of engaging them to act according to his inclinations, endeavours by every servile and fawning attention to obtain their good will. He has not time, however, to do this upon every occasion. In civilised society he stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons. In almost every other race of animals each individual, when it is grown up to maturity, is entirely independent, and in its natural state has occasion for the assistance of no other living creature. But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
You know what? That guy knew stuff! How did he do it? He had no tv, no NPR, no Common Core, yet, for his time, he made sense. Of course, with the genius of Marx and others, we advanced in economic theory and learned that serf societies, unhindered by a middle class with freedom to apply initiative, imagination, and entrepreneurship, could be properly managed in serfdom, and financial advancement through competition could live in peace. If they did what they were told, worked hard, didn’t complain about poverty and unnecessary wars, and died young. All that is needed is a public belief that all labor is for the general good, and that sacrifices are equally made by all. Commissars have to endure hardships too, because man has lost all his jungle spirit in Communist/Nazi societies. The NWO, UN, Rockefellers, royals, Rothschilds…are working to bring about peaceful, prosperous life through dictatorship of the proletariat. Don’t believe the lies of those who speak of depopulation and the death of five or six billion people and Halliburton winning a no-bid cadaver disposal contract.
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