And it came to pass...

Once upon a time this country used to flow with a free market system. If a person had a trade, they would charge a comparible and competitive cost for their trade, ever striving to be successful for themselves in that trade. Consumers would be aware of the cost before paying for the trade, agree to it, and receive services or goods.

Within that market system, others saw opportunity to also create trades to play middle man between the consumer, and the service or goods received. They also were ever striving to be successful and profitable for themselves as the middle man.

But in the endevour to make a profit, it had to be a partnership with the tradesman they advocated services for. The tradesman was now held under scrutiny of injustices done to the consumer, and lawsuits became the new trend. Making it a burden on the tradesman, they sought to limit their liability and absolve themselves from such scrutiny. Judges ruled in favor of the people crying out the injustices, and a new middle man appeared to stand as an advocate for the tradesman, but he also needed to make a profit to be industrial. This advocate was the insurance to protect the tradesman against facing liability and responsibility... whether it was justifiable or not. It shifted the burden instead to the consumer.

But to pay their advocate, the tradesman now had to increase the cost for his services. And the people pleaded with the Judges of the land for fairness. And the middle man between the consumer and the tradesman also pleaded with the Judges, and lavished them with fine gifts, so the Judges said "let each state determine for themselves." And so they did. Each State created a regulation of standards, set forth by the Middle man himself, of what was necessary to provide a quality of service or goods all in 'good faith' to the consumer. And they were given a royal status among the land for many years.

Until there came a day when the consumers started to drop from participation, and the group who remained began to be depleated of their golds and riches without their awareness. They continually had to pay the new Kings of the land for new fees, new taxes, new dues for the protection of their middleman to bring to them the services and goods they desired greatly from the tradesman.

And then one day, the tradesman found a plan to release himself of all liability of the cries of injustice by the people for the services he rendered. The middleman agreed to play the advocate for him too, and created a language that was confusing and superior to the simple people in the land, but they paid the Kings anyway, and so a new law was born by default of agreements to contracts made by the unknowing consumer.

And the Tradesman began to profit in the land once again. And the Kings became nobeler. And the Judges became fat and gluttonous from their gifts from the Kings, that they did not listen to the cries of the dwindling group of consumers who were being stifled by the Tradesman and his advocates.

And the participating consumers felt priviledged. A superior luxury it was to this class of people to afford the payments demanded by the Kings of the land, to gloat above all other members of their race of their achievements by their kinship with the Tradesman. Until, one day... many of those participating consumers began to be cheated. They were not receiving the services they paid to their Kings as the middleman to the Tradesman. But the Kings did not repent. They paid even more to the Judges of the land to allow them the rights to their own regulations, their own penalties, their own governing among the people of the land.

And the free market died. No longer was the industry for the consumer to purchase services or goods from the Tradesman without belonging to the elite royal courts of the Kings. But not all consumers could afford to play by the Kings rules. And many of them knew that even if they did, the Kings were not fair to them but only to the Tradesman. And they were turned away from the courts of the Kings after pleading with them for the life of their child, or mother, who needed the services of the Tradesman. But their cries were not heard, they fell upon deaf ears of the King, for it benefited him not to be merciful to them.

And there grew a large number of people in the land who also could not purchase the services from the Tradesman, because they did not pay riches unto the King. The Tradesman, for fear of liabilities falling upon him once more, refused to provide services or goods to this people, though many of these people were rich people. The King, who was once the middleman between the people and the Tradesman, would not allow the Tradesman to offer services to them. For it was against the new laws in this land.

And again, the people cried injustices to their Judges. But this group of people was now growing large in number of those who once followed in faith of the King, and those who couldn't pay the king, and those who refused to pay the king. And the Judges realized that the laws of the land set forth in virtue of the people had been ignored, and that a new power was rising in the land of the free market which was shifting the authority of the Judges.

But the King feared losing his power. He spread lies among the people. Causing fear, and murmurings, and wars, and rumors of wars. All of this was to distract from the voices of the people, and the virtues that the land was established by for the prosperity of everyone.

To be continued...