Prologue: Note from Lord Phantasos

„A System Which Distributes Bread to The People“ is a treaty secretly written by Lord Westphalion who inquired opon the laws he and his collegues made in the House of Lords. He described how the parliamentarian Lords created an industrial society under the despotism of the rich elite. He wrote: „One pound bread for the Elite. A price of bread for the middle class and crumble for the precariate, which in some countries makes up to the majority of the population.“ The business-friendly laws stripped away many labour’s rights, which increased massivly the power of the entrepreneurs. In an country hunted by mass poverty and more and more work akin to (modern) slavery, Lord Westphalion felt unwell, as one of the less corrupt politicians, whereas his more corrupt collegues made nearly unseless laws to bad laws. He felt like the state was melting away reduced to a rubber stamp to formalise the will of the rich through laws. In the year 2025 after King Colway fouded his country of Cornwalys, he decided to plot with the unofficial „crumble-party“ in order to force parliament to enact laws with very modest labour rights and an extreme minimal minimm salary. He knew, that the system was too corrupt to go further, the crumble-party could even be killed for the few demands its want to do. Lord Westphalion and his alcolytes like me tried to understand and change the system. He choosed the path of reform and I the path of revolution (…)

(Lord Phantasos‘ note ends abruptly)

Chapter One: The First Principes of Power

The powerfull minds acquire and accumulate power naturally. The cuase is that these minds are seen natural to guide by the observers. Collective perception is the source of power.

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Chapter Three: Experiences

What I observed in the first years of my first mandate, was that great will for structural change was met with harsh resisitance. It felt like giving the working people the right amount of money as a fair salary was an utopia by which the system could collapse. Ginving the working people enough money to live in dignity was considered as too much, whereas giving them the minimum amount, so they could in extremis avoid starvation shall be seen as the maximum wage for worker in order to avoid bread-rebellions and at the same time making pressure on the masses so they are kept in their status; those of the working poor.

The commitee I joined spoke often on an informal wage specially for an all-time consuming middle-class. In thouse small rooms we had to design the economic situation of the social classes and at the same time trying to find ideological justifications why the system is as it is. One of my collegue talked to me later after the session, that the commitee chiar made a mistake to speak about valoring the working people; they would not take such a narrative seriously, when they are underpaid and overworked. He also feared that embolded lesser classes could demand a just and fair salary or a better representation in politics and business management. During the next session we unanimously decided to agrandise the upper classes at the expense of the lesser ones. Our recommendations were viruted theday after by the House of Lords.

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(to be continued)

Julien Sita, january 20th 2022.