So instead, it was better to raise taxes, collect other people's money into your own pockets, then spend it. That was what you were supposed to do.
The Commodity Monetary System was actually the wisdom of a great leader from Lynn's previous life.
It didn't create debt, and the money supply expanded in step with society's wealth.
Back in that great leader's day, they'd played this game all the time.
For decades.
And when you added Lynn's own high-tax model, where a large share of wealth went to the state, it went like this: out of every hundred you earned, I took eighty-five. You weren't allowed to waste five, either; you had to pay your employees' Five Insurances and One Housing Fund.
I took the eighty-five you paid in taxes and put it right back into the market to fund development.
Factories, roads, healthcare, the military.
In the end, that money would be diluted into countless shares and paid to ordinary people and the poor in the form of wages.
Driven by those wages, these people could be mobilized to produce and build.
Then you Capitalists could legally exploit the poor, make money, and give me eighty-five again. And you still weren't allowed to waste the five; you had to keep paying your employees' Five Insurances and One Housing Fund.
Otherwise, you knew what I'd do: the tangible Military Boots, and the invisible heavy hand of torture.
I, Lynn, am on the socialist side. Want to talk to my army?
At its core, this wasn't about the government making money. It was about mobilizing other people—everyone—to produce goods.
Once production was complete, economic means could then be used to mobilize resources and improve the material lives of others.
Edward had actually seen through this deepest, unspoken logic of Lynn's.
Lynn's