Recently there have been two disparate trends in geopolitics. A mass of nations, reinventing themselves after discovering they could not ensure universal prosperity by outlawing wealth, have discovered capitalism. On the other hand countries that had found wealth are discovering that they can not fight poverty by draining the wealthy that invest their pools of capital. They can’t guarantee success, they can’t ban failure. Never the less, few are willing to remove the obstacles to abundance existing in their large governments with their rapacious appetites for taxes and their excrement of over regulation.
The simple answer of ensuring equality of opportunity is not considered politically feasible (Where’s the power over others in that?).
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” Adam Smith
The nature of nations is that they do not slowly evolve into beneficial entities. Instead they are corrupted by the powerful to ensure increases in their power.
The nation where you were born no longer exists.
Sure, the name may be the same, but the flag you were forced to face as you recited a loyalty oath no longer represents what you were taught. Nations change every time a lawmaker re-reads the basic law to modify its intent. That happens at least daily. The social contract you assented to under duress, during your compulsory education, is no longer valid. Your counterparty was murdered by politics. You have no debt of loyalty to the assassins.
You are the slave of an unjust system — unless . . .
You make yourself a citizen and resident of many nations. With that flexibility you can choose which contracts you will enter. You can bank in the few countries where they try to respect your financial privacy. You can reside in countries where they understand that freedom means leaders must leave-well-enough-alone. You can do business where it is not cripplingly taxed and regulated out of international competitiveness. You can have citizenships in the vast majority of nations that don’t tax your world wide income. You can seek fair property rights, enforced contracts, and a just judicial system. You will have choices, and nations will need to compete for your attention.
Because you can.
The first choice: You can resign yourself to watching as your lifestyle and human rights decrease (you know that’s the trend) – or – You can start the process of celebrating your inalienable rights by embracing opportunity in a changing world.
We are in the early stages of a revolution in the world order. Financial, monetary, and governance systems are collapsing. It may take years, decades, or even centuries before they again stabilize for a brief period. Become adaptable or become the new lower class. Decide to be freeman or slave, opportunity seeker or machine part.
You can let slave masters decide for you.
Just like in a free market, don’t accept any bargain that doesn’t benefit you and your family. The world will benefit from your production as a free and innovative person. That’s incidental. Your human rights belong to you, recover and use them.
The next move is yours.
Bill Freeman