The Lost Inheritance: Topics List

Chapter 6 (Locked into Poverty)
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The Instruments of Acquisition by Which The Favoured Few Grew Rich: All of us were born on this planet, but most of us own none of it. That is a privilege reserved for a small minority.
Poverty: A Self-latching Trap From Which There is No Escape: A capital economy embodies a nasty self-latching mechanism which ensures that once you become poor, you remain poor.
Critical Mass: To Survive in a Global Market, You Have To Start Big: Without enough capital you cannot start a business. And the critical mass of capital required to start and survive gets bigger as the market grows.
Energy Barrier: Analogy for The Cause of Free Market Exclusion: It is the automatic latch on the door to the free market, which makes certain that any whom misfortune may cast out, become locked out.
The Cost of Marketing Relegates Most Good Products To Oblivion: Developing what technically may be the perfect product is one thing. Getting people to buy it is something else.
Means of Exchange: The Nebulous Nature of The Value of Money: We live in a relativistic universe. Every view is unique to the one whose view it is, including one's view of the value of money.
The DSS Savings Limit Grid-Locks The Poor Into Permanent Poverty: The upper limit on savings, imposed on those dependent on state welfare, deprives them of a means by which they could escape their economic inactivity.
Poverty: The Social Isolation Quickly Erodes One's Ability To Reconnect: The severe poverty, to which state welfare subjects the unemployed, forcibly isolates them from the very society to which they are accused of not contributing.
Short Wave Broadcasts: Analogy for Free Market Competition: Short wave bands are a cacophony of competing signals from all over the world. Only the most powerful stations can be heard above the melee.
The Lost Inheritance, Chapter 6: Structure
Battle of The Balances: The DSS Savings Limit grid-locks the poor into permanent poverty.
My So-Called 'Capital' 1991-2000: An applet which displays the daily balance of my personal 'capital'.
Blaming Society: Blaming self is easy. Blaming society takes courage.