This world of ours is flush with ideas, ideas that generate in the minds of ordinary people as well those who occupy the opulent interiors of glitzy edifices. One would imagine that the ideas engendered by all the minds would combine to chart the course of the world. But if that were to happen we would be living in an ideal society, a utopia, a la Thomas More.

Since our society (in the global sense of the term) is far from being ideal, the ideas, along with the rights and interests, of the hoi polloi and their champions are of little or no consequence to the way the world is forced to function. The world has sadly been shaped by those inhabiting the opulent edifices, and we have been made to accept and follow the laws they have meticulously devised with Machiavellian ingenuity. And as would be expected, many of these laws contradict, and blatantly at that, the infallible laws of nature.

Not surprisingly, economics, rather economists, has played the most devastating role in this Machiavellian scheme to crush, albeit unsuccessfully, the laws of nature. The people who conceive and write these anti-nature laws in the confines of plush buildings do not have the foggiest of what the real world is like.