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the economics of the future
Feb. 26th, 2011 05:14 pmThe key to the future, a glimpse of which we are seeing in the protests in the Middle East and North Africa, is to find a way for every person on the planet to have a sense of purpose and feeling of fulfillment, and a means of a self-direction in achieving and sustaining that.
The problem in getting from here to there is succinctly put in the phrase from the move "The Right Stuff", "No bucks, no Buck Rogers". Therefore, the economic challenge is not to find more bucks, or even a more equitable way of attaining or distributing the available bucks, but to factor the bucks completely out of the equation. For this we will need economists and sociologists and behavioral psychiatrists to adopt each others' perspectives in order to approach the problem laterally. Because the same type of thinking is always, only ever going to lead to the same problems.
The problem in getting from here to there is succinctly put in the phrase from the move "The Right Stuff", "No bucks, no Buck Rogers". Therefore, the economic challenge is not to find more bucks, or even a more equitable way of attaining or distributing the available bucks, but to factor the bucks completely out of the equation. For this we will need economists and sociologists and behavioral psychiatrists to adopt each others' perspectives in order to approach the problem laterally. Because the same type of thinking is always, only ever going to lead to the same problems.
