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What if you could see exactly how much is being taken from you — in real dollars, at your income level, over your lifetime?
Etienne de la Boetie², Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and author of “Government” — The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, presents the most comprehensive public accounting ever attempted of how the fractional reserve banking system and “government” systematically extract wealth from ordinary American workers. The median worker earning $60,000/year loses approximately $1.40 million over a 40-year career and 20-year retirement — 58% of gross lifetime earnings.
This wasn’t calculated by one analyst with an agenda. It was calculated independently by four separate AI systems — Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT — each prompted with identical methodology, without coordination. They converged on the same numbers.
The book documents three mechanisms of extraction:
The Inflation Tax — Every dollar banks create out of thin air reduces your purchasing power. No vote required. No announcement made.
The Cantillon Effect — Banks and their borrowers receive newly created money first, before prices adjust. By the time wages catch up, the transfer has already happened.
The Compound Trap — Workers must borrow at interest to afford homes, education, and healthcare inflated by the same system — paying interest to the very system that inflated those prices.
Add government taxation — approximately $785,000 over a lifetime — and the Social Security shortfall from understated inflation adjustments, and the total lifetime extraction for the median worker reaches $1.40 million. Every figure is sourced, every calculation is replicable — the AI prompts are printed in the book.
Full-color charts and visualizations show exactly where every dollar goes, at every income level from $35K to $1M.
Once you see how the system works, you start wanting other people to see it too.
You don’t need to argue about the Federal Reserve over Thanksgiving dinner. Hand someone this book and say: “Find your income level. That’s how much they’re taking from you.”











