In the beginning,

• There were land enclosures
• Enclosures decrease your means of survival and increase the enclosure master’s, now owner of the land.
• The new owner of the land, nice as he is, lets you work his land in exchange for a wage.
• These wages are first paid in goods and then in coins (probably minted by the owner).
• Enclosures begat capital.
• Owners keep the profits
• Profits beget more capital for the owner.
• Capital begets the Fiat system.
• The owner later builds a factory on his land and lets you work in it as his employee.
• You are now a piece of a big machine that is partly made up of people like you.
• Your wage goes up and you are happier.
• You can afford shoes for your boys; girls don’t need shoes.
• you are starting to internalize the Fiat model of domination.
• You only mind your work.
• Then you toss it to the next fellow in line.

Lessons Learned

As a good employee,

• You are docile and obedient.
• Your work is your only source of survival.
• You never learn that it was once possible to find dignity at work.

Unions Enter the Scene,

• They make demands on behalf of you, the little people.
• Unions protect you, the employee.
• Unions make you happy, little people.
• Wages go up and working conditions get codified.
• Unions never question the system.
• Unions are centralized and ruled by Fiat, just like the businesses that spawned them.

Unions Fade Away

• Wages keep going up, in wealthy countries.
• Wages go down in poor countries.
• Wages become salaries for very good, educated employees.
• Very good employees take work home.
• Vacation time goes up, but very good employees are proud of not taking advantage of it.

Trendy Purpose

It becomes trendy for businesses to have a Purpose, capitalized. Nevertheless, they are still owned by the people with the capital (i.e., which, as you may remember, came from enclosures).

But Now…

• Five billion people have Internet connectivity,^∇
• A lot of them are getting the feeling that maybe this Fiat system is not working for them.
• A lot of them feel that it is time for a change.
• The Radical model enters from stage left, an alternative to the Fiat system.

ENDNOTES

• How Many People Use the Internet? Oberlo. <https://radicals.world/dXr7HM>