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The Organizer can be classed as Organizer, Industrialist or Capitalist. The Laborer is the one who does the actual work that produces wealth. However, wealth has but little value unless it reaches the hands of the people and can be utilized to advantage, and it is right there that the MERCHANT takes his place as the DISTRIBUTOR of wealth. The merchant is the life of trade. He puts the finished product into the hands of the people. So, that is how wealth is created and distributed. There are a lot of little side lines, but INVENTION, ORGANIZATION, LABOR and TRADE are the four main channels. It is very important that you remember that if you want to understand pure Economics. In order that wealth may be distributed in the most economic way, a Trade Convenience must be utilized for efficient interchange of products having different values. A manufacturer cannot trade an automobile for a package of pins, nor can a laborer give his services for a pipeful of tobacco. There must be a scientific method of exchange whereby the producers and distributors of wealth may each receive the full value of their services. So, during the past, someone invented a money system as a Trade Convenience. Now, right here you must understand that money has no value whatsoever. It is merely utilized as a Trade Convenience. It is a common vehicle of trade arranged for the benefit of everybody. It belongs to everybody because everybody agrees to accept it as a medium of exchange. If the people would |
all refuse to accept money in exchange for their Labor or Products it would be
worthless. It would make no difference of what sort of material it is made of. Money therefore, is a measurement of value and not value. That is one of the most important lessons that the people must learn before they will be able to understand how to manage their own affairs. Because the people do not understand that money is the measure of value and not value itself, the swindlers are able to fleece them of practically everything they are able to produce. When the people understand that money has no value but can be used successfully as a measure of value then will they have learned their first lesson in Direct Credits that will give a purchasing power to everybody equal to their productive power and Justice for Everybody that harms Nobody. Under our present swindling financial system we do not use money as a measure of value but as value itself and therefore it is stretched or shrunk at the will of those who claim they own or control the money system. That is one of the bad factors that cause your economic troubles. If you want to measure a piece of land or a piece of ribbon, you can use a yardstick for that purpose. A yard is three feet or thirty-six inches on all occasions and it does not make any difference what you measure or where you measure it. It is always the same. You cannot stretch it nor shrink it. It is the same if you measure ribbon or land and whether you measure it in America or in China. |