Robbers Who Rule Us.

The thieves that rule us are robbing average citizens every day through a mechanism we’ve all come to think is “normal.” News flash: it shouldn’t be.

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Sacred rocks.

In a place called Bacatá, where the Andean peaks touched the sky, lake Guatavita was known as a sacred site by the Muisca people. Not merely a body of water, it was believed to be the domain of the deities who governed life, death, and the cycles of nature, making it a principal site for sacred offerings to these celestial beings.

Adorned with a headdress that shimmered with luminescent feathers, a revered tribal elder with skin like polished copper bowed at the lake's edge, his voice rising in ancient chants. As the prayers reached a crescendo, his arm struck forward to cast an offering of luminous green emeralds into the lake, sunlight sparkling off them one final time as they sank into the depths.

To the Muisca, emeralds were seen as much more than simply beautiful rocks born from the bosom of the earth. Instead, they were sacred items that represented abundance and life, believing them to be the physical manifestation of the fertility brought to them from the far east by the god Bochica.

Emeralds, primarily sourced from the mines of Muzo and Chivor, held a high status in many areas of Muisca life.

When placed in sacred lakes or buried with the dead, they served as conduits between the material world and the spiritual realm, ensuring favour from deities like Sua, the sun god, and Chia, the moon goddess. This practice was not just spiritual; it was an economic and social cornerstone, resulting in emeralds holding a value equivalent to that of gold in other cultures.

The Muisca were known for their advanced economic systems, which included extensive trade routes with bordering and distant communities. Emeralds—along with silver, salt, and other goods—were traded across vast distances, along with stories of the power of these verdant gemstones, and the favour they brought to those who held them.

The spiritual and economic legend of emeralds grew over time until all in society knew that each carried a piece of the cosmos, a promise of divine favour, making them priceless—a treasure that whispered promises of good harvests, prosperity, and the favour of celestial beings, elevating their worth far beyond their luminous beauty or rarity.

Eventually, in the culture of the Muisca and its neighbours, nothing in society—not food, textiles, or obsidian—held a value equivalent to or higher than these green stones passed down to them by the gods. Not even gold, no matter how pure, could match the whispered magic of the emerald.

Stolen wealth.

I’m writing today’s letter from Medellín. A city nestled in the Aburrá Valley, close to the ancient homeland of the Muisca people.

Some 1,300 years after the first evidence that the Muisca founded a culture in this part of the world, emeralds are still prized here in Colombia. By some accounts, the nation produces between 70% to 90% of the world’s supply.

Why am I focusing on emeralds? Because the green gems are the perfect way to illustrate how our governments continue to rob us each year.

Let me show you how.

$100,000 worth of goods and services in 2001 now cost $177,587 today due to the rising cost of prices through inflation.

If you kept $100K in savings in an account since 2001, earning average US interest, you would have ended up with around $137,291. Even taking that into account, inflation would have still robbed 23% of its value and purchasing power during that time.

On the contrary, let’s say you used that money to buy investment-grade emeralds instead. If you did, you would have almost 6x’d your dough (approx. $587K) through compounding gains, as the green stones have increased in value an average of 8% per year in the same timeframe.

Let’s look at another example: gold.

In 2001, the lustrous yellow metal was worth a mere $271 per oz. Earlier today, it hit a high of $2.625.69 per oz, the highest ever in human history—nearly a 10x return on 23 years ago.

The rising prices of real estate, art, stocks, and commodities over the past couple of decades tell the same story.

Now, I’m not saying you should dump all your savings into emeralds or gold, though that would likely be a much better idea than keeping them in a savings account.

Instead, what I am attempting to illustrate is twofold:

→ Firstly, that hard assets will almost always outperform cash.

→ Secondly, it shows a clear comparison of how the average person gets screwed by our governments, which are responsible for creating inflation, while at the same time rewarding the wealthy who keep their value in hard assets.

Simply put, inflation is the worst hidden tax levied on us by our governments. One they’re almost solely responsible for creating.

Here’s how the cycle generally goes:

The economy gets bad, usually due to the bad policies implemented by the politicians who rule us. In order to “fix” or stimulate the economy, money is printed or given out to people, or interest rates are lowered, giving more in society access to credit. The end result is that the price of real assets, like real estate, rises as money itself is devalued over time, and inflation occurs.

Or, in short, governments make the economy bad, then implement policies that make things worse for the average person while transferring wealth to the upper echelons of society who own all the assets.

As you might expect, the people writing the laws that make this happen also own significantly more assets than most people.

Depending on the figures you choose to believe, the average net worth of a US Senator or Representative—the people most responsible for creating monetary policy that causes inflation—is north of $3 million USD. For some, like Nanci Pelosi and Rick Scott, this is much higher at a quarter-billion or more.

These net worths are in stark contrast with that of the average citizen of the nation, which stands at only $183,000 USD (for someone 35 or under), or less than $1M overall.

This isn’t exclusive to the United States either. In Australia, opposition leader Peter Dutton (who was once a lowly police detective on a five-figure yearly salary) has amassed a $300-million fortune since taking office. The current sitting prime minister also has an estimated 6.5x higher net worth than the average Australian.

In other words, rules and policies that screw normal people are being made by those who benefit from them.

This is why the true worth of fiat money—dollars, yen, Euros, and everything else—continues to fall; because society knows that inherently, cash has no value, and can be easily manipulated.

To the Muisca, the value of emeralds grew over time due to an increase in faith, legend, and stories surrounding these prized gleaming rocks.

Similarly, hard assets in our time are growing due to faith also.

The difference is that it’s due to a lack of faith in the fiat currency our society is built on.

Government manipulation of the value of our money will never change. We must engage in this reality in a manner that favours our own economic well-being.

Don’t think you can afford hard assets?

At the time of this writing, a single ounce of silver is a little over $31, well within anyone’s budget to invest in. Back in 2001, it was a mere $4.37.

Whatever you do, remember that cash isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Instead, it’s time to put your trust and faith in items that will hold their shine through the ages.

Written by Leon Hill.
Founder, Anticitizen.

This newsletter is for educational purposes, and is not financial advice. Please do your own research, and consider risks involved with investing or purchasing any asset.