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“Money is the barometer of a society's morals. When you see that deals are no longer made voluntarily but under duress, that in order to produce you need the permission of people who produce nothing, that money flows to those who trade not in goods but in favours, that people get rich through bribery and connections, not through work, that the laws do not protect you from these people but these people from you, that corruption is rewarded and honesty punished, then you know that your society is on the verge of collapse.” — Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a society's morals. When you see that deals are no longer made voluntarily but under duress, that in order to produce you need the permission of people who produce nothing, that money flows to those who trade not in goods but in favours, that people get rich through bribery and connections, not through work, that the laws do not protect you from these people but these people from you, that corruption is rewarded and honesty punished, then you know that your society is on the verge of collapse.