Self-Evident Justice in Monetary Design

Zera Yacob developed a philosophy based on what reason recognizes as self-evidently true across all cultures—justice that needs no enforcer because it reflects human nature itself. Applied to central banking, this asks: what monetary principles would rational people accept without coercion? That inflation secretly steals purchasing power from savers and workers is self-evident injustice. That monetary policy benefiting asset holders while harming wage-earners violates equality is plainly unreasonable. Central banks operating through Yacob's lens would design policies that pass the test of universal self-evidence: transparency about money creation, predictable value preservation, and structures that don't systematically concentrate wealth. This transforms monetary policy from technical management into a philosophical practice grounded in what all rational beings recognize as fair.