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Our leaders, both business and government, find themselves entrapped in thinking about economics in terms of money. Soon we will be thinking about it in terms
by moosey 7y ago
Our leaders, both business and government, find themselves entrapped in thinking about economics in terms of money. Soon we will be thinking about it in terms of productivity: how do we make sure enough food is made and distributed? How do we make sure we have enough medical supplies? We got away without thinking about productive capacity, instead focusing on money.
We will lose more people to this disease than any war since WW2, based on the statistics presented by people I trust. If we don't learn about wartime economics and fast, then the number will be higher than it needs to be.
Unfortunately, like I said, the people in charge are trapped in a box, believing that the systems that awarded them with great wealth must be the best possible system. The side-effect of this will be more death than necessary.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThere is a reason why money was used for eons - planned economies failed horribly and the logistics of it likewise would utterly break. I accept that it is theoretically possible for a better system to be come up with but in practice we have been kept waiting. Even when there was a nominal alternative in the USSR their "economics" were nonsense backed by ideology even by the standards of questionable economics. I would be interested in seeing theoretical and hypothetical alternative system models but sadly what I have come across is more like "alternative" in the alternative medicine sense. Sellinf questionable cures and railing against "big pharma" rhetoric and attacks and little to none on rigorous models or experimentalism to actually build anything.