" Whenever Destroyers Appear Among men, They start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral Existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all = objective standards and Delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an = objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth That does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: "Account Overdrawn."
Ayn Rand
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