Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1346

1346. What lies hidden behind the evolution of these two mental directions? Indeed, what lies hidden is nothing less than the complete socialisation of mankind. It is the breaking down of the exaggerated possibility to possess that has existed up to now for dishonest citizens who are strong, cunning and inconsiderate, and who, because of an insatiable desire, risk their lives in order to acquire as many assets as possible for the least possible payment or no payment at all. They accumulate mankind's great common wealth in huge piles or fortunes amounting to millions, which in turn, through their authorisation and statutory protection as "private property", become a weapon that, along with accumulated wealth, assets and bank accounts or authorised economic weapons of other millionaires or billionaires, become such a strong factor that the beings concerned are able to use their "trust companies" to buy up the individual vital products, materials and articles for everyday use and can thereby determine the price of these products for mankind as a whole the world over. It is thereby obvious that this price has been dictated not by "wages" or real "material value" but by these amoral people who have economic power. Their interest is of course dictated exclusively by an insatiable desire to "hoard", a quite abnormal urge to collect or a kind of "miserly tendency", regardless of what it costs their victims in terms of sweat, sufferings and tears. The price such magnates or owners of companies are interested in is not "philanthropic". It is determined exclusively by how great the world's collective demand is for the product in question. The more vital the product is for people, the higher the price they can be forced to pay for it. And since the magnates are collectively so mighty that they sometimes own or control the total world supply of the product in question as their legally protected or authorised "private property", they can of course take the highest price that people in the given situation can be forced to pay, regardless or independent of how absurdly and unjustifiably high this price may be in relation to the true cost of the product. This greater or lesser excess price is in turn authorised under the concept of "stock exchange quotation". For the vital products this "stock exchange quotation" is thus really nothing more or less than a camouflaged "hold up". It is an intellectualised version of "Your money or your life". As long as the world still authorises these phenomena it has not rid itself of "robbery", and life has still not become the "good will" to all men promised by the gospel of Christmas Eve. Absolute "peace" in the world is therefore still an impossibility.