Jail Monopoly

Hoarding = Fake Scarcity = Real Tyranny

In the World of Plenty we will turn around many of the structures of the World of Scarcity. The biggest culprit to keep people in the stranglehold of our current World of Scarcity, is the concept of the “Monopoly”. Now we discussed the two most devious monopolies at length: The monopoly of a tiny group of people that we allow to create money out of thin air and allow the monopoly on insight in everyone's financial transactions. You can read more about that specific problem here. In the rest of this article, we will however look at another very problematic monopoly:

Land ownership

The concept of land-ownership is - historically - responsible for the expulsion of most of the indigenous people from their land. The colonizers came in with maps, ownership ledgers, Code of Law, lawyers, judges and violence and bribes to take the land from the Indians, Aboriginals and most African, South American and other tribes.

The same banking cartels that financed the colonization of indigenous people however also put their greedy all-seeing eye on the land of European farmers. The theft from "Western farmers" wasn't perhaps as blatant and violent as the theft from the overseas indigenous people (the farmers just before Bolshevik Russia, Nazi German and recent Ukraine may beg to differ), but insane bureaucracy with state police backup is still theft.

That the Western land grab is also illegal, should be obvious. The entire deceit to "buy" the land of farmers is funded by money that is printed out of thin air by Central Banks that are created by deceit to begin with. And with is almost all politicians are now corrupted by this fake money, just as most media and scientists. All these criminals take the same bribes and knowingly participate in the largest propaganda psy-ops in human history: Climate Change, Corona and War. The objectives of the owners of the central banks are clear. They want all the natural resources and with it finalize the World of Scarcity and use their mega-monopoly to keep the full control over their victims trough technocratic and medical tyranny.

This mother of all monopolies started when we allowed gold as our currency. The problematic feature of gold as money is that it can be hoarded. This allowed a tiny group of "Money-changers" to have a clear advantage over people that do actual work. Silvio Gesell saw this clearly and proposed a way to deteriorate the value of money to make hoarding less attractive or even useless.

Silvio Gesell was however too late. The Money-changers already used their "financial upper hand" to start hoarding land and financed smart but deceitful “Code of Law”-rules and combined it with propaganda and a monopoly on (state) violence to enforce these rules.

Silvio Gesell also saw the problem of the hoarding of land, but - as I see it - made a big mistake by not completely abandoning the concept of "land-ownership". His attempt - as well as the attempt of Henri George - seem both flawed to me, as they both use a government “enforced” procurement and financialized land-use method as part of their solution.

"Government" is however a vehicle that is currently fully empowered to serve the owners of central banks, and with it, is at the absolute root of the problem. Once you allow bureaucrats to hold the monopoly of a combination of land-ownership and violence, it is bound to be abused and will be a highway to tyranny.

The only way we can possibly allow an organization that resembles "government", is when it is funded completely voluntarily and transparent. This type of leadership will normally and naturally be arranged locally (like a committee of village elders). And these respected people (that give advice based on their years of experience of living in that local community) should indicate who is allowed to use which part of the land in the community. And when the leadership makes a good case to kick people from the land they were allowed to use - and the community backs that case - people can be kicked from their land. In a land of plenty they likely will receive fitting compensation for the situation. And obviously sometimes mistakes will be made and personal interests will get involved. But that's just life and with transparency, real journalism and economics that are based on voluntaryism and grudges or approval selfish politics will have serious consequences.

When things really get out of hand, the self-sovereign identity helps you to migrate and start somewhere else. As most people don't want to get kicked out, it is to be expected that most people will try their utmost best to be a valuable participant in the community.

By realizing this voluntary land-use system, it becomes easier for people to stay where they belong. It is opposite of financial land-ownership, which is a recipe to allow people to encroach land where they don't belong at all.

Natural Law

It should be obvious why we should never allow people or their organizations to own the air that we breathe. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "All humans are free", it means that we are free to breathe, free to move, free to enjoy the sunlight and free to consume what nature provides. That is how the animals and the plants live.

It is also naturally to claim territory for species and to create social structures to create peace and ensure survival of the group. Once survival is secured, claiming extra territory should not be necessary and should be considered as inappropriate.

With financial land ownership there is no natural boundary, especially when we allow a small group to print money out of thin air. It is clear why the people that issue our money love the concept of making abstract concepts as countries sovereign and why these people created the United Nations.

Statism

To highlight the megalomaniacal Statism of the owners of our financial system you just need to take a look at the “Outer Space Treaty”, where the "ownership" of celestial bodies is arranged, you can see that in every of the 17 rules, the word "Nation", "State" or "Government" is used.

When you look at the air that we breathe, it is clear why we should not allow people to financially own it. Because when we allow a small group of people to issue money out of thin air, they can hyperinflate our capability to purchase to this air out of existence and enslave us using their "legal" position.

When you elaborate on "No human shall be held in slavery or servitude" as a human right, then "not allowing anybody to own the air that we breathe" is also a human right derived from the anti-slavery right. It however seems a bit strange that "not allowing anybody to own something" can be a human right. It looks even opposite to "Every human has the right to own property". The problem with ownership is that - when we allow certain people to have the sole right to issue money that this group is able to monopolize things that we need to survive and maneuver us into slavery and servitude.

And don't be fooled. These masters can claim they have very responsible, very important and very complicated jobs overseeing all the slaves and keeping them safe. They can even pretend that they are just well paid slaves of the same system. Whatever they claim, it still is pure slavery and servitude. By the way, many of the real masters won't expose themselves for obvious reasons and hide their wealth in untraceable off-shore trust funds and hide themselves on remote islands in well secured mansions. From there they direct the politicians on their payroll to keep destroying the natural order of society in favor of the Statism they need to stay hidden.

What To Own?

Now the question is:

“Which things should not be considered properties that humans have the right to claim (financial) ownership of?”

The answer to that question is basically anything that - when monopolized - would bring us in slavery and servitude. The most obvious one is that we never should allow humans to become the sole issuer and controllers (with sole insight in transactions) of money. Allowing a system like that is the best recipe to slavery and servitude as we see in our society right now.

But even is we disallow such a system, (financialized) property of other things could lead to slavery when we allow it to be monopolized as property.

Like air, ownership off all natural resources should be disallowed. This includes land, rivers, lakes, oceans and celestial bodies. Next to that also "intellectual property" should be disallowed. The reason for that I will explain in my next article, but it should be clear that claiming and dealing with the intellectual property of things almost always leads to servitude and to potential very unethical situations.

In this article we however focus on the issue of land-ownership and related natural resources. Actually, land-ownership and the ownership of rivers, lakes or seas are in essence very similar. The only difference is that traditionally (before GPS existed) boundaries are more difficult to fix on water bodies. But besides that, they can be regarded as similar surfaces with natural resources under and above it. Above the surface we have sunlight, rain, snow, animals, plants, wind and space as natural resources. Under it we have also animals and plants and anything that can be mined.

Both Silvio Gesell and Henri George agree that only items that are a result of human labor can be owned as property and that - since land is not a product of human labor - land can not be owned. The transition to a situation where land is not owned - that both Silvio Gesell and Henri George suggest - have both government involved. Gesell proposes that government intervenes by buying all the land at market value and then arrange a bidding where the highest bidder on the lease is allowed to use the land. Georges solution is that government simply confiscate all land and create a land tax that needs to be paid by the users of the land to compensate the region.

The flaw in these proposals is that the government is basically owned by the people that print money out of thin air. Allowing government to confiscate or buy all land would exactly create the communist-fascist situation that the owners of the financial system dream of. They now own all the land and allow the slaves to use it when they properly pat their taxes or land-lease. Because of that reason a situation where government has nothing to do with land-use and only exists as a meritocracy based on voluntary donations of the people that benefit from the natural resources of that land or water-body.

Super Regional Issues

In the “World of Plenty” we would have regional leadership. Regions would preferably being defined by natural boundaries and cultural features like language, religion, art and other common features. We should leave the defining of borders to the regional leadership.

Besides that we should have no global organizations besides only a sort of Global Advisory Board that can operate to pinpoint and record issues that go beyond regional territories. This board also should advise in solutions for such issues, in an as neutral way as possible. Decisions should be based mainly on the UDHR and the rationale behind it. Issues like Nimby (Not In My Backyard) - where regions for example refuse to create waste disposal factories or nuclear power plants - or where regions don't solve their own pollution problems (leading to issues in neighboring regions), should be addressed in this Global Advisory Board. The global advisory board should also act when certain regions are hoarding resources that are important to critical development of other regions.

In a World of Plenty that is based on voluntaryism, just pointing to regions that don't participate properly in the common interest can an impact on the voluntary payments of others outside the region to people inside the region that is not properly participating. The impact of that will however not be destroying the people of that region. It just helps to motivate regions to also consider the well-being of humans outside their community.

Real Prices, Real Free Markets and Real Capitalism

Within the regions people own the products from the natural resources that are farmed, bred, hunted, fished and mined. The people obviously also own the products they create with it.

Because of that and also because the subject land valuation is constantly fluctuating with the voluntary payments for the products, real prices will now start to appear. The difference with our current world will be that the prices of the products in the “World of Plenty“ are only related to actual work that went into it, plus the perceived value of the used natural resource materials in that product. Cutting out the “scarcity factor“ of possible hoarded land with that specific resource, in combination with proper free and transparent markets will ultimately lead to these “Real Prices“. Only by completely taking out governments from this equation, actual “Real Capitalism“ can finally start doing it’s job.

May 16th, 2025
Teun van Sambeek MSc, MRE
creator of Ethical Money and Copiania, World of Plenty