{"product_id":"the-greatest-theft-in-human-history-how-the-banks-and-the-government-will-steal-at-least-2-7million-from-every-working-american-legally-9798901193372","title":"The Greatest Theft in Human History: How the Banks and the \"Government\" Will Steal at Least $2.7Million from Every Working American... \"Legally\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Etienne de la Boetie²\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Art of Liberty Foundation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Art of Liberty Foundation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Money \u0026amp; Monetary Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e113.7% of gross lifetime earnings. They don't just take all of it. They take \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003emore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e than all of it - and then loan it back as debt.\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 -$758,672\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 -$818,400\u003cstrong\u003e- SS COLA Alt. Index Scenario Gap\u003c\/strong\u003e - $771,027\u003cstrong\u003eTOTAL EXTRACTION: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e$2,727,768 per median lifetime earner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf honest money had prevailed, the same worker would be $1.7 million richer. Under the fuller opportunity-cost counterfactual, the gap climbs to roughly \u003cstrong\u003e$4.4 million\u003c\/strong\u003e per worker - per lifetime.\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","brand":"Art of Liberty Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883572281495,"sku":"9798901193372","price":1107.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798901193372.webp?v=1781102638","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-greatest-theft-in-human-history-how-the-banks-and-the-government-will-steal-at-least-2-7million-from-every-working-american-legally-9798901193372","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}