{"product_id":"the-greatest-theft-in-human-etienne-de-la-boetiee-9798901193372","title":"The Greatest Theft in Human History: How the Banks and the \"Government\" Will Steal at Least $1.4 Million from Every Working American... \"Legally\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e58% of gross lifetime earnings. The organized crime banks and \"government\" don't just take almost all of it. They force you to borrow at interest to finance homes, education, and healthcare made unaffordable by their dishonest, inflationary monetary system! \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Federal Reserve's own charts show the dollar has lost over 96% of its value since 1913. Everyone has seen the graph. Almost nobody has done the math on what that actually cost them. This investigative report does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing primary-source data from the FDIC, Federal Reserve H.6, BLS, SSA, and IRS - cross-verified by four independent AI systems (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, with Gemini acting as hostile third-party reviewer) - \u003cem\u003eThe Greatest Theft in Human History\u003c\/em\u003e quantifies, for the first time, the total lifetime extraction from a median-earning American worker: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Inflation Tax\u003c\/strong\u003e -$215,000\u003cstrong\u003e- Cantillon Effect\u003c\/strong\u003e -$72,000\u003cstrong\u003e- Compound Trap\u003c\/strong\u003e -$307,669\u003cstrong\u003e- Government Taxes\u003c\/strong\u003e -$784,800\u003cstrong\u003e- SS COLA Alt. Index Scenario Gap\u003c\/strong\u003e - $16,000\u003cstrong\u003eTOTAL EXTRACTION: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e$1,400,000 per median lifetime earner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the honest money of a gold standard had prevailed, the same worker would be $1.96 million richer through the proven benign deflation that improves purchasing power year-over-year more faithfully transmitting the savings of innovations and productivity improvements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a polemic. It is an audit. Every figure is sourced. Every methodology is reproducible. The spreadsheets, the prompts, and the full four-AI cross-verification are published openly at \u003cstrong\u003eArtOfLiberty.org\/Inflation\u003c\/strong\u003e so any reader - or any critic - can check the arithmetic in under an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou are not broke because you spent too much on coffee. You are broke because a system was engineered, over a century, to make sure you would be. This book shows you - in charts, tables, and hard numbers - exactly how.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Etienne de la Boetie²\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901193372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Art of Liberty Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Etienne de la Boetie²","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852921057535,"sku":"9798901193372","price":15.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-greatest-theft-in-human-etienne-de-la-boetiee-9798901193372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}