> but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy" We all live in a global trading economy. This has been

> but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy" We all live in a global trading economy. This has been the case for thousands of years. We don't have a global dictatorship. This is good. Also, this is a thing: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-worldbank?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-worldbank?tab=chart&c...