Excerpt from Roland Baader´s Book "Money Socialism"

This is the second Book from Roland Baader I´m currently reading and I want to share one of the passages that impressed me most. A very on point analyses of the corrupting forces of the welfare state debt monster and it´s impact on society. The book was published in 2010 and the erosion of moral and sense of entitlement are marching forth at increased pace since then.

Debt and Moral

If a large number of people - or even the majority - live from other people´s money and work, and the recipients are actually persuaded they are entitled to this, then the result is not only a different understanding of the economy, of work, property, government, and politics, but also change in the structure of people´s personality and characters. Independence, self reliance, providing for the future, cohesion of nuclear and extended family, moderation, honesty and personal willingness to help are becoming less and less valued. 

An action can only have moral worth if its carried out without coercion and not at the expense of others. Personal morals (and there are no other morals than personal ones!) fade away when they are relabeled with the weasel word "social" and when "social" matters are increasingly pulled into the coercing and dictating sphere of government with its monopoly on the use of force. This pull accelerates the more the public debt and the accompanying scope of action of the political class increases. The debt-funded welfare state has transformed the democratic process into a battlefield of self-centered lobby groups and political parties into class war organizations. 

Abusing the term "insurance" it destroys the law by defining entitlements without service in return as "rights". In the personal sphere, the ethic of sharing is infinitely important, but it becomes a destructive ethic if applied to a whole society. Its effect is then that of carpet bombing, destroying everything; the material value of the people, and their spiritual and moral values. Morals cannot exist as a generally available and permanently sable elements in a society without the normal economics constraints of life. In a land of limitless plenty, the phenomenon of "morals" would be unknown. The welfare state, built upon mountains of debt, is leading people to believe that they are living in some kind of paradise.