Ayn Rand could see it and eloquently explain it. Destroy material wealth through inflation, destroy moral standards by inflating the meaning of individual rights.
“A collectivist tyranny dare not enslave a country by an outright confiscation of its values, material or moral. It has to be done by a process of internal corruption. Just as in the material realm the plundering of a country's wealth is accomplished by inflating the currency-so today one may witness the process of inflation being applied to the realm of rights. The process entails such a growth of newly enacted "rights" that people do not notice the fact that the meaning of the concept is being reversed. Just as bad money drives out good money, so these "printing-press rights" negate authentic rights.”
Excerpt from:
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
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Highly recommend this book.
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