History is merciless to civilizations that indulge in monetary corruption. Debase the currency, dilute real wealth with illusions, and collapse becomes inevitable. Yet those who command the levers of our monetary system persist in the same folly, either arrogantly convinced “this time will be different” or psychopathically indifferent to the suffering they sow.

— Neal Flesher, Modern Chains (Chapter 8)

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