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March 22, 1822 Zeeland, Netherlands March 3, 1902 The Hague, Netherlands Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte, (born March 22 , 1822 Goes, Neth. died March 3, 1902, The Hague) Liberal Dutch statesman who energetically attacked the exploitative colonial Culture System, which extracted wealth from the Dutch East Indies by using forced labour, and who succeeded in abolishing some of its abuses.
Such governments are typically led by autocratic strong men who shower themselves and their cronies with all the fruits of extracted wealth, whether stolen from the people or squeezed from their country's natural resources.
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Debt is how the rich extract wealth from the rest of us, at home and abroad".
Bureaucracy is a system "whose ultimate purpose is to extract wealth in the form of profits".
This isn't about creating wealth, but about one group of people extracting wealth from another group.
Where plantations did not develop, the colonial state found a means of extracting wealth from free peasants.
Of course, what we call corporations are, in fact, perpetual motion machines, set up to endlessly extract wealth (and leave slagheaps of poverty behind) no matter what.
But Mr. Blankenhorn's institute recently issued a report with 31 criticisms of casinos, including, "modern slot machines are highly addictive" and "casinos extract wealth from communities".
More broadly, casinos are nothing more than a regressive tax that extracts wealth from the very citizens who can least afford it.
One downside is the possible increase in fees associated with external management of retirement savings; it creates another way for Wall Street to extract wealth from Main Street.
Most states are going to end up being mere conduits for extracting wealth to send to the global financial system (think Greece, Ireland, and soon Spain).
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