Systematic cheating

When wage slaves drank and danced, also to console themselves for the loss of rural liberties, lands, shops, and the beauty of nature there, they were accused of vice, debauchery and licentiousness. Women and children were forced to work 80, and more, hours a week- and accused of sloth and indolence when less than eager to do so. It was said that the devil gets into a man in his spare time- the unemployed were flogged and sent to workhouses.

Workers could not save more than small fractions of their meager wages. Such small sums earned little interest because bankers were not interested in bothering with them. But the members of the banker-borrower brotherhood invested far larger proportions of their far larger profits and dividends into each other's businesses at far higher interest rates or dividend shares. Vast quantities of number money were made as the value of the same coins deposited by small savers was copied over and over again in this way.

The little people were, in fact, cheated out of their fair share of profits made on industrialized production processes while their savings were sterilized. But, while exploited workers drowned the sorrows in drink and "depravity", their exploiters compounded their interests and prided themselves on their prudence, thrift, industry, enterprise, perseverance and intelligence. They were paragons of virtue, upright, highly respectable citizens who deserved all of their wealth and power.