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At first people said, "Doesn't regulating provide a value?" The answer was, "Yes, it does when you pay for that service...in other words, when regulating becomes a free-market service." In the 20th-century publishing industry, for example, magazines submitted to ABC, an auditing business that strictly regulated magazines in regards to subscriptions and circulation. Well, ABC was a value to the industry as it verified circulation for advertisers. Realize, ABC had to exert the dogged effort to be that value. ABC had to meet a bottom line; ABC had to meet the business discipline to make its service a value to people who wanted to pay for it. ABC had to earn its money.
In 20th-century government, by contrast, forced taxes removed the need to put forth effort. Forced taxes provided the conditions that bred laziness and incompetence. You see, the money was automatically there; no need existed to exert the effort to build a genuine value that people wanted to pay for: no bottom-line business disciplines to meet, no competition, no threat of being fired, no fear of going out of business, no need to work intensely, no need to put out the effort to make a value for society in order to make a paycheck for themselves. Therefore, our politicians and bureaucrats became professionally lazy; they institutionalized laziness in our government. The leaders rode off the efforts of the people. Those self-indulging leaders, in an inheritance-like mode, recklessly spent our money and consumed our wealth for their own political popularity. They did not earn wealth.
Since our government's leaders did not put out the effort to provide genuine values for society and earn wealth, they instead created illusions that they provided values for society. The politicians and bureaucrats created a magic show of watching over and regulating business from the potential dangers of the "greedy" market businessman. Thus, their activities of creating laws, regulating (i.e., burdening) business, and spending our money now appeared as values to us. And, not grounded to the tough work of producing values, they spent all their time building this addicting, divine power of ruling over us.
Bureaucrats and politicians took the fast lane of burdening values for easy popularity. In 20th-century America, we had a large network of business to regulate for decades to come. Since people did whatever they did in their jobs to promote their careers, 20th-century career politicians aggressively burdened to promote themselves. Market businessmen and women who built values, on the other hand, built to promote themselves. In summing up the nature of our leaders who controlled our 20th-century no-win society, answer this: Did they acquire their status by: 1) building values, or 2) burdening values?
The market businessman used effort and built values. The career politician burdened values. And what motivated politicians to desperately want office? Something deep in their souls -- their lacking self-esteems -- desperately drove them. Politicians desperately wanted to prove to themselves and to the world that they were important. They did not earn legitimate self-esteem through building values, but they inherited a big dose of prestige if elected. And the more they ruled over us, the more prestige they enjoyed. Lacking legitimate self-esteem, they were certainly motivated to rule over us.
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