Moral virtue

Goodness as judged by proclaimed intention rather than by consequence. In the fiat order, policies that punish productive activity are granted this status precisely because they restrain what the political class cannot direct — the inversion of virtue into an instrument against capital formation.

So malignant is this economic and philosophical decay that frictions on capital formation are upheld as a moral virtue, while these very actions manifest themselves in class struggle of the kind that shakes the very foundation of our civilization.

As used in: fiat-masquerade