77. As the money power camp thus possesses the valuable goods, that is to say, all the necessities of life, then the other camp is forced to buy the necessities of life from the first.
But just as the example showed,
the people with the money power are not interested in this kind of trade unless it is based on acquiring new valuable goods, and that can only take place by overcharging.
As the people from the opposite side have basically nothing to offer but their
skill, or work power in exchange for their necessities of life, and the other people must receive from this payment
"an excess price", the result will be, therefore,
that any work done can only be bought by money at a "cut-price" and that any necessities of life, according to the above, can only be sold at "an excess price".
The result of this is
that the valuable goods or necessities of life will inevitably accumulate in one of the community's above-mentioned two camps, while at the same time they will disappear from the other one, which again causes superabundance, greed and idleness in the former camp, and poverty, malnutrition and servitude in the latter.
But, as poverty, malnutrition and servitude are identical with ruin, the facts mentioned here mean that one part of society is undermining the other.
The whole of the terrestrial community is sapping itself.
Everything which comes under the concepts of
wealth, greed and idleness constitutes, then, good fortune which definitely can only be maintained on the basis of the ruin of the community.