I’ve said something like this before in connection with ‘corporate personhood’. For some reason the topic sharpened up this morning, helped by familiarity with the new research on brain networks.
Natural Law is innate. It’s built into our brains. We have specific feature detectors for unfair practices or deceptive language. We don’t know the difference between rich crime and poor crime. It’s all crime. We don’t know the difference between Wall Street crime and Mafia crime. It’s all crime.
Woody: Some men rob you with a pistol, some rob you with a pen.
(Adjusted for inflation, some rob you with a spreadsheet.)
The vicious CRIMINAL propaganda of the Enlightenment, written by aristocrats for aristocrats, persuaded us that rich crime is part of The Efficient Market. Stock crashes are necessary to enable prosperity. We must reward Wall Street criminals who rob us with pens, and we must execute poor criminals who rob us with fists or guns.
We know better, and FDR turned Natural Law into Official Law. He restored Natural Law for BOTH classes of criminal.
Immediately after he died, Deepstate began to bring back the Enlightenment version of law and economics. The process was hard because the country was solidly prosperous while FDR’s laws were punishing rich criminals. Ordinary men could support a comfortable life on a 40-hour week with no extra gigs, no working wife. Rich men were still rich, corporations were still highly profitable. Everyone had enough.
Eventually the Wall Street gangsters got one of their own back into office. Wall Street lawyer Nixon played tricks to crash prosperity so that he could restore his Wall Street criminal clients to their previous greedy glory. Successors continued tearing down the laws, and the new tech criminals joined the battle from the other coast. By 2000 the job was done, announced by the first big robbery since 1929.
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