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The evident fact that this economic theft is not persecuted by a feudal justice system, but is in fact promoted by it, amounts to a gross form of economic injustice being perpetrated against the society as a whole. In fact this injustice has grown to such proportions that it must be considered as a crime against humanity.
Financial crimes against humanity.
Not only is the present state of society made more precarious, as the result of economic injustice, its very future is held in a balance because of it. Should the society decide that it want's to redevelop itself to a state of prosperity that it was in 30 to 40 years ago, much of the present infrastructural system, including the basic industries such as steel and energy production, will have to be rebuilt before any net development can actually begin. Even the society's social strength would need to be rebuild before it could carry out the task of its self-development to where it was 30-40 years ago. In other words, the effects of the economic crimes committed against humanity, will have to be reversed. The reality of these crimes is evident by their effects, which are real.
The fact is, the society has been exceedingly impoverished by the financial sharks that have been looting it's economy. This looting has created a significant social and economic impotence. The increased poverty is actually quite astounding.
By comparing the purchasing power of the weekly paycheck of an average worker, today, to that of 30 years ago, in terms of the market basket that this paycheck represents, it becomes plain that the standard of living of the workers of society has collapsed by 50% since the mid 1960s. In addition, during the same period, the average household debt has increased by 9,000%. Health care costs have increased by 500%, education costs by 100%, homes prices by 220%. In other words, the average wage would need to be triple of what it presently is for the society to regain its relative income level that it had in the mid 1960s.
This tremendous growth in poverty is reflected in the number of people who must earn incomes in order to support a typical three child family. The days are long gone in which a single industrial worker had been able to maintain such a three child family in relative comfort and at a good nutritional level. Today, on the average, three people must earn a paycheck in order to be able to maintain a three child family at the 1960 level of prosperity.
This increasing servitude is typical for a society living in the end-phase of an imperial period, which happens to be the type of period that we are presently in. In the end phase of the Roman Empire, for instance, when taxation increased evermore rapidly, it became increasingly too expensive for the big land-holders to maintain even their agricultural slaves. In response, the slaves were set free and turned into tenant farmers. By this process the slaves were required to maintain themselves and turn in a profit as rent. Thus, with a change in policy, the overall slavery was effectively increased, including the profits from it. By this method of 'self-motivation' a far greater amount of servitude was extracted from the slaves, and at a lesser cost to the land-holders. The modern feudal system promotes the same path of increased servitude for lesser returns.
The modern trend that forces more and more people into menial servitude, mostly into the retail and service sectors, has put a severe strain on the social fabric of the society, especially the family unit. The fact that a family has to hold down 2 to 7 jobs in order to maintain the necessary standard of living, has resulted in a frightening fragmentation of the family unit. It even has resulted in a drop in the birth rate, as the increased servitude has resulted in the near total breakdown of the institution of the family.
The massive increase in the labor force that occurred in the 1970s, which brought the society's woman into the job market en-masse, did not occur voluntarily. It was driven by increasing poverty which made it necessary for many women to help hold up the collapsing family income. It is a crime to impose such deep poverty on a society as a matter of policy.
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