Inflation/Weaponization
Inflation: The Silent Weapon of the Managerial Elite
How Central Banks, War, and Economic Control Erode the People’s Power
In the theater of modern economics, inflation is often framed as a natural consequence of market fluctuations, wars, pandemics, or global supply chain hiccups. But beneath the jargon and bureaucratic camouflage, inflation has increasingly become a weapon—a quiet, systemic instrument used to concentrate power and extract wealth from the working masses into the hands of a tightly knit managerial elite.
This isn’t economics. This is class warfare with a balance sheet.
🎯 The Real Inflation Target? Your Wallet.
The average citizen sees inflation as a rising cost of groceries, rent, and fuel. The Federal Reserve sees it as a policy tool. But the ones who benefit from it—big corporations, state-aligned banks, and elite technocrats—see it for what it truly is: a mechanism for control.
As economist David Brady Jr. of the Mises Institute outlines, inflation isn’t just a byproduct of fiscal policy—it’s a deliberate ideology, designed to centralize power in the hands of those closest to the spigot of newly created money. That would be the banking system, political class, and corporate oligarchs.
Think of it like this: inflation transfers wealth in slow motion. The people who get access to freshly printed money first—governments, central banks, defense contractors, and politically connected corporations—spend it before prices rise. Everyone else? You get the same paycheck, but suddenly a dozen eggs costs more than your VPN subscription.
🏦 Central Banks: Where Monopoly Meets Monopolization
Many believe inflation is "natural" or "inevitable." That’s what you’re supposed to believe. In reality, it’s engineered.
The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and their counterparts aren’t just neutral referees. They’re players in the game, and they’re backing one team—the managerial class. The very existence of a central bank gives political and corporate elites the ability to borrow endlessly, fund wars, and bail out themselves, all while masking the real cost of these actions from taxpayers.
Taxation is hard. Printing money is easy. Inflation is just unvoted taxation—a stealth tax no one consents to but everyone pays for.
💣 The Marriage of War and Inflation
As Ron Paul famously said,
“It’s no coincidence that the century of total war has coincided with the century of central banking.”
Warfare used to require consent. Governments had to raise taxes, justify action, and face scrutiny. Now? Just print. Endless deficits are absorbed by printing presses, and the public foots the bill through inflated prices and hollowed-out savings.
From the Progressive Era to the New Deal to modern perpetual warfare, the state’s relationship with mega-corporations and technocrats has transformed into what James Burnham called the “Managerial Revolution”—a system where bureaucrats, not entrepreneurs or citizens, control the economy. Small businesses die in inflation storms. Monopolies survive with stimulus floaties.
🎭 Illusions of Prosperity
Inflation creates an illusion of growth. People feel richer because nominal wages go up, but real purchasing power evaporates. You’re not earning more—you’re just being gaslit with GDP graphs and CPI numbers massaged like a shady accounting trick.
What’s worse? Price signals are distorted. Markets no longer reflect supply and demand—they reflect central bank decisions, government policy whims, and geopolitical posturing. This leaves everyday people economically disoriented, unable to plan for the future.
It’s not just about money. It’s about control.
When the price of everything rises and the value of your savings falls, you become more dependent on jobs, handouts, and credit. And dependency breeds obedience.
🔄 From Currency to Compliance
Ludwig von Mises once argued that the “power of the purse” is the people’s greatest democratic tool. When individuals can choose how to spend, save, and invest, they place checks on the state. But inflation robs this power, replacing free choice with coerced consumption and debt servitude.
The central bank–state–corporate trifecta ensures that even your wallet can’t revolt anymore. You’re not just being priced out of the housing market—you’re being priced out of resistance.
🧠 Final Thought: Inflation Is Not a Bug. It's a Feature.
To view inflation as an accident is to misunderstand the system entirely. It is a planned extraction of wealth, a mechanism to fund state ambition and corporate dominance without democratic oversight.
And while citizens are told to "tighten their belts" and "adjust expectations," yachts are selling out and billionaires are buying blood transfusions to stay young.
Because in the war of inflation, the working class is the battlefield, the middle class is the casualty, and the ruling class?
They're just printing the ammo.
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