We must have growth, we must cut taxes, we must raise investments, we must increase savings, we must cut the deficit, ... (If you have read a bit of other things I have written on this you can probably see where I'm going.)
We must do all of those things, but we must not obsess on any one of those things. More importantly, we must do new things. Almost every one of those economists and commentators will mention "innovation" and the need to invent more crap to sell to the consumers. 'Creating jobs in the clean energy industry' is a favorite and is often mentioned.
But this all reminds me of the "blogosphere" and how it seems to me that life is like a play where the entire audience is on stage and everybody is shouting their lines but nobody is listening to the words, nobody is commenting on the content or meaning or the meaninglessness -- the fact that when people use the word "innovation" all they really mean is doing basically the exact same thing that has been done before except now they've attached a decoration ...
True inovation isn't just thinking of a new product to sell -- true innovation starts with examining fundamentals and contemplating alternative approaches.
Capitalism is too competitive and usually benefits the individual corporation and to an extent the individuals within that corporation but harms society. We already have all of the answers, they are all laid out before us like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but we don't put the pieces together into a picture because they are in competition.
All of the pieces are fighting for themselves but nobody is fighting for completing the puzzle.
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(Notes to self: economic sustainability; environmental sustainability; psychological sustainability)
Topics soon to be covered:
- Basic values (Note to Self: economic, not "moral" value)
- (Fragmented) Information
- (Fragmented) Cooperation
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