"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 tradings 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
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