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if i hypothetically were the ruler of a sovereign state and needed to squeeze productivity out of my stock of hooman capital what i could do to keep them docile is maintain their consumption and production but strip away their ability to retire

e.g. if i tax them to whip them they will complain. if i indirectly tax them through inflation they will also complain BUT if i inflate ONLY what they haven’t bought yet(houses, equity, capital) then i can effectively steal productivity from their footures

their everyday life would be the same as before. the only people who would notice are those who buy capital as part of their everyday life

in order to combat that i’d have to seed some propaganda to make these people “rich out of touch assholes who are thieves” by spotlighting some actual assholes then their warning signs will be ignored by the ignorant masses