In the long history of mankind laborious toil secured from the laborers by institutional means has been extracted and multiplied for generations by some families. It did not begin in America, nor England, nor Europe, but perhaps in Sumer, or even earlier.

There may not be an unbroken succession of inheritors of this wealth, but there is a multigenerational culture in such families that has enabled them to succeed at this endeavor.

When, in 1913 the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in America, you note that people could have resisted then, but did not. People in every age could have stopped it then, and did not. ..."all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

This is how these institutions have succeeded, by solving the calculus of what people will bear, and not exceeding that burden.

From time to time such excesses have ravaged people enough, and heads rolled, and were stuck on spikes. As you have pointed out, the hydra grew new heads, and continued waxing fat on the labors of mankind.

Now, we enter into a new era. Global cooling, the Grand Solar Minimum, is upon us, and the excesses of this class of economic overlord have become unbearable, the dichotomy between the wealthy and the poor magnified beyond not mere reason, but belief.

I know from history that at this point in the solar cycle empires fall. People starve when crops fail worldwide, and populations plummet in an orgy of war, famine, and plague.

Will this time be different? Our overlords don't expect it to be. They are maximizing their resources, strip mining the peoples of the world for wealth, in order to prepare to profit from the long death before us.

But we can make it different. We don't have to dissolve our bonds of fraternal cooperation and descend into fratricidal riots. We can intensify agriculture in controlled environments, burn the excess clouds reflecting the sun's saving warmth, and save our peoples, our cultures, and civilization.

They don't expect us to.

Let's prove them wrong.

Thanks for your forthright and concise discussion of economic predation that secures the wealth of the overlords by sacrificing the starving hordes.