Historically, one of the most effective ways to motivate or change people’s minds is to put their methods and means of making money at risk.

Not paying your military properly is also one of the worst acts that civilian leadership can do that will create a divide in authority with loyalty, discipline, and morale.

Many of the greatest massacres committed by military forces throughout antiquity were caused because their members decided to go AWOL and mutiny because the state and its leadership were unable or unwilling to pay their military members the wealth they were promised.

The parables in German fairy tales are second to none in conveying the message to young children.