[When will the SHTF ?]
"Do you wish to know when that day is coming?
Watch money !
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by Compulsion.
When you see that in order to produce,
you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing.
When you see that money is flowing to those who deal,
not in goods, but in favors.
When you see that men get richer by graft
and by pull than by work,
and your laws don’t protect you against them,
but protect them against you.
When you see corruption being rewarded
and honesty becoming self-sacrifice
you may know that your society is doomed.
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns
and it does not make terms with brutality.
It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: Atlas Shrugged, P. 385 (1957
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