Artificial inflation is not some mild annoyance, akin to a crumb falling from a man’s sandwich; it is an active instrument of exploitation, manipulated by human hands and engineered for extraction. There is a world of difference between stealing someone’s property and shackling him to an economic plow, forcefully redirecting his work away from his well-being and for the benefit of an entrenched elite. Debasement does not merely steal; it yokes the many to toil for the gain of a few.

— Neal Flesher, Modern Chains (Chapter 1)

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