growing up in the country

"It is wonderful how people, who never come up against reality
from the cradle to the grave, and live all their lives a purely artificial
existence in some city divorced from all contact with primitive
nature, get into the habit of supposing that the conventions which
regulate their businesses and livelihoods can be applied to the
economy of the world at large. It would be quite impossible for
any member of the agricultural community, for example,
accustomed to the ways in which wealth is really produced, to
fall down and worship the institution of usury in such a naive
fashion, or for a Labour Government, to be guilty of the confusions
between wealth and debt which are characteristic of orthodox
politicians at the present time. We have in the hitherto association
of the function of Government almost entirely with those who live
by rent, interest and profit, and thus take from rather than
contribute to the revenue of the wealth of the community, a further
justification for the view already expressed, that the community in
its struggle for existence resembles an army officered almost
entirely by the enemy."

F. Soddy, at http://habitat.aq.upm.es/boletin/n37/afsod.en.html#fnmark-5