> I suspect that as computing gets better, we will eventually create models that will make the invisible transparent and make our debates about these topics qua

> I suspect that as computing gets better, we will eventually create models that will make the invisible transparent and make our debates about these topics quaint to people of this future. Maybe what we need more than just lobbying instacart is systems that allow us to see economies in real-time and simulate outcomes of individual, highly variable, irrational agents at unprecedented scales in order to give policymakers definitive answers about issues like this, for we are governing blind and I am afraid of what the future holds for us. We already have the compute power, just almost no interest in economic modeling besides ERPs. There are great projects such as ValueFlows ( http://valueflo.ws/ http://valueflo.ws/ ) and ValueNetworks ( https://github.com/FreedomCoop/valuenetwork https://github.com/FreedomCoop/valuenetwork ) that are taking a stab at this area.