[FRIAM] FW: YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

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FRIAMMERS: 

 

"the government cant print money fast enough to save the economy"

 

I have to say, this made me wonder just exactly what an "economy" is. 

 

Imagine us like so many well fed rats in our separate cages.  Food and water is brought to us daily by Amazon.  Municipal Services cart the waste a way. We exercise in our wheels. Our mates and young are by our sides.  We can see and smell our neighbors through the wires but we cannot touch. Life is perfect!  But there is no economy?  What's an economy?   See attached <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development> , especially page 2.

 

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Nicholas Thompson

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

 

I've seen a few articles with titles like "Coronavirus is the death of Neoliberalism" or "... Capitalism" and whatnot. I'm skeptical. As much as I reject analogies between societal upheaval/collapse and phases of matter, I do believe in inflection points. My guess is that authoritarianism is what lies ahead of us on the other side of this inflection. We were already trending that way and I bet we'll continue. This inflection looks more like a minor rate change than anything fundamental.

 

This article was hopeful:

 

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture and capitalism  <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/the-coronavirus-crisis-has-exposed-the-ugly-truth-about-celebrity-culture-and-capitalism> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/the-coronavirus-crisis-has-exposed-the-ugly-truth-about-celebrity-culture-and-capitalism

 

There's nothing more disgusting to me than our celebrity fetish. But this article was pessimistic:

 

Invisible man? Amid pandemic, Biden sidelined by omnipresent Trump  <https://news.yahoo.com/invisible-man-amid-pandemic-biden-sidelined-omnipresent-trump-082411045.html> https://news.yahoo.com/invisible-man-amid-pandemic-biden-sidelined-omnipresent-trump-082411045.html

 

My faith in my fellow humans' *tastes* is always crushed. Everyone tends to flock to the least common denominator. (My primary objection to instant-runoff/ranked-choice voting and pop music, as well as overly reductive rating systems like Rotten Tomatoes, etc.) The "wisdom of crowds" is an oxymoron. >8^D

 

On 4/2/20 8:05 AM, Prof David West wrote:

> Governments cannot print and distribute money fast enough to prevent a major collapse of world economic order and concomitant social breakdown.

 

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