The Real Economics of America
Even if its bleak now, its not impossible to fix... I'm presenting a sustainable plan below...
Just in case you guys don’t know I have written two books on economics (not trying to sell those to you now, just subscribe if you wanna support), so…. That’s why I feel qualified to discuss said topics. Economic and political studies has been one of my main hobbies for the past 15-20 years.
Being that the United States is simply too big to be governed effectively by one institution; we can see the economics system here cracking at the seams. Hilariously, the United States has the weird problem of not having enough equitable countries to trade with on its same economic footing. This creates trade imbalances, which then can affect local markets in various ways. Due to this, we have to try and subsedize key industries so that there is a more predictable market for the people who choose to invest or enter into that market sphere.
But aside from that, we also have a high influx of black and grey money (money made from illegal or untaxed sources) which also complicates things. Lawmakers know that there are issues with the way that things are running; but they have a fiduciary duty to protect their biggest donors first, and everyone else last. This is how a corporation operates, and trust me when I tell you that America is more of a corporation than a country. Just look at the millions of laws that govern any action you may take during your lifetime. That will tell you all that you need to know about America and who made up the laws here.
But that being said, why are the non-profit donations dying? Well big tech isn’t creating many jobs, they are trying to trim the fat with AI. Farming is profitable but risky, manufacturing barely exists, service industry jobs generally only pay minimum wage, flying cars have not arrived yet, and everyone is just trying to do the least amount possible for a check. The last decent paying industries are just the blue collar things that middle Americans do. People on the coast don’t aspire to be truckers or plumbers anymore. And entrepreneurship is only possible when you have a lot of people willing to take risks. People don’t take many risks when they are depressed, so we actually can see that the core of the economic issue is actually depression. Half of the country is addicted to drugs, alcohol, or anti-depressants. The other half the country is just exhausted from having to keep everything functioning normally for that wacky welfare half.
So basically you just are left with a system where there is no faith left to go around. We can’t make good art, we can’t build cool new inventions unless they deal with killing someone or automating common people out of jobs, so what does America even contribute to the world? Freedom? Thats a laugh. Frankly the last thing that we actually do provide is twofold, education and charity. Yes two unlikely candidates to base the economy on. But look at who the most popular YouTuber is. He’s a charity guy. And look at who will never ever run out of money, the universities. Yes love them or hate them, its the two things America has that the rest of the world is just jealous of. No other country would ever do charity work on the scale that we do it. Nor do they have our educational system. We used to be the leader in the arts, but that died in the 90’s for sure. Sure we make movies/TV/music, but they are usually utter soulless dribble. We can barely come up with new pop music stars every 5 years at this point.
The stock market and banking systems are not fixable. They just suffer from over-centralization and as a result they will suffer due to no real competition in the 5-20 year range. Even though some people may say that derivatives and drug money hiding is what makes these systems unsustainable; it’s more of an issue when less raw goods and services are moving around. When those stop, the bankers don’t have any crap to manipulate and meddle with; so they get greedier and more desperate than normal. The fact remains that the stock market creates very little job growth overall. The same can be said of drug dealing. It’s a break even deal, that just causes a longterm decay on society, even if a few people get rich. Banks will make money on whatever is around them, so you can’t blame them for that. It’s how they are designed. Find the money and multiply it, thats how banks are designed to operate as a business model.
But in terms of the stock market, it’s just mainly a way to centralize money and keep it pooling into New York/LA and out of middle America. (See the true history of the civil war for more info there.)But hey, this isn’t a downer type of article. I’m a solution based thinker. And the key to getting any economy back running is to try and eliminate unhappiness and depression. To do this, we need to inspire people to use drugs less and use their creativity more. It’s quite simple, it just takes time to reverse the train back from a hellish track.
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Enough of the Problem, Where is the Solution?
We can fix non-profits and export the model overseas. We can also export learning models via zoom; or building schools overseas as well. So let’s just try to focus on what can be fixed…. politics you say? You can do things to help the elderly, children and animals in politics; but other than that you will have a hard time having much impact. Lobbyists have most other issues sewn up tight. We can really make non-profits super accountable by forcing their hand on transparency. Then we can start funding non-profits galore instead of start ups. The start ups are usually half-cocked these days anyhow. Most of them are glorified pump and dump schemes, or service based companies that disrupt things but don’t create any good middle class jobs. Non-Profits do at least create some stability by allowing people to self-fund companies through donations; and allow Americans to export a charitable mindset abroad through actions not words alone.
Education can do nothing but help, although we really need to stop with the nano-tech, robotics, and AI. These are all “zero-value-add” types of industries. They mine as well be label them industries of torture, futility, and despotism. Of these three things, the positive uses for any of them in the long long term is slim to none. They are a one stop shop to the dark ages. But really any other types of education are fine. Allopathic medicine needs to integrate herbalism again, so maybe we can get some funding over there for acupuncture and herb studies once again. That would be a big cost savings to our country in the near and far future. Integrating better medicinal programs into education could help us redeem our leader status in terms of human rights. Even if we wanna continue some atrocious foreign policy decisions; this could salvage some of our reputation in the future.
Fixing the Arts?
Well you can’t force anyone to be creative. To make creative works, they first have. to not be depressed. So letting people know the dangers of drugs and addiction; and giving them alternatives to these things when young is quite important. While the arts in America are not dead, they are on life-support. Who knows what paddles of life we will have to bring in to shock this industry back to life.
Hyper-Inflation?
No hyper inflation will never be a huge issue in America as long as we are the worlds reserve currency; which seems probable for many decades to come. So stop listening to the fear porn idiots on YouTube. They are just trying to sell gold and crypto… So this isn’t a problem we ever have to fix, we just have to re-instate enough middle class jobs to allow people to afford things again.
In Conclusion?
Just be a good human….Work hard, do more spiritual stuff, and more charity work; eventually it will rub off on people near you as well!