Nations that value victimhood as the most important currency are not equipped to resist global domination by an aggressive and brutal fascist dictatorship.
Victimhood is one of the worst possible currencies to base a society upon - and over time it tends to degenerate into THE worst currency, violence.
Victimhood follows the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else: more is produced as its value increases.
Victimhood follows the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else: more is produced as its value increases.
Everyone wants to manufacture a hot commodity like victimhood. Everyone wants to control its value. Like other currencies, it suffers from inflation as the supply increases. People who used to think they were rich in victimhood find themselves sliding down the totem pole.
But you can't do anything positive or constructive with the currency of victimhood. You can't bank it or invest it. It repels people from each other, rather than bringing them together in the pursuit of mutual ambitions.
A good currency increases the value of capital by making it more flexible - earning and spending money is far superior to bartering - but victimhood degrades the value of all other capital, especially the most widely owned and invested capital of all, our labor.
Victim societies degrade PEOPLE. They literally make people less valuable. Talent, skill, and dedication become less important as the value of victim status increases. Vast human potential remains untapped when only certified victims need apply.
And as we've learned through a string of scandals over the past few years, the currency of victimhood is very easy to counterfeit. Its value is unstable and fraud is rampant in a victim-based economy. The level of trust in such a system is, understandably, very low.
In the end, there are really only two mediums of exchange that allocate resources and make capital productive: trust and force. Everything boils down to some combination of those two. You work and invest because you trust you'll get paid, or because you fear you'll be punished.
Victimhood, like the brutal fascist oppression of a nation like China, trends toward force over trust. Victim economies only sputter along because the unfavored are forced to comply, forced to remain silent about corruption and injustice, forced to constantly admit their guilt.
High-trust societies prosper through freedom, and they tend to prosper more as people are left more free to cooperate and compete with each other. Conversely, freedom degrades as trust declines. Who wants to be employees or partners with people they don't trust at all?
As victimology destroys the level of trust in a society, freedom naturally gives way to compulsion. Resources still need to be allocated, but now it takes force to make people work - which comes as a nasty surprise to those who assume socialism means a cushy free ride.
Thus do people who think they're investing power in wise political elites to seek "social justice" find that the ultimate form of social justice is a vast prison, where we are all cellmates together. The privileges of victimhood are always temporary illusions. /end
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