This is just my opinion on a few matters, take it how you will.... I realize some are pipe dreams and making them realities would not be easy. We should have more sensible choices the benefit us all without regressing into an authoritarian communist nightmare.
Planned obsolescence should be illegal. If you don't know what this is, you should look into it for yourself. Think designed to break or fall apart to ensure you buy more. Ex light bulbs, car parts and break after warranty designs.
Cartel type monopolized industries should be flooded with competition. Think eye glasses, telecommunications, diamonds or any other artificially inflated price industry. See well known media conglomeration of power (6 companies own everything). Then each of these media companies are involved in oil, pharmaceutical, finance etc. Pick an industry and follow the money backwards.
We should not be charged a exuberant profit for utilities that do not require the price we are charged to continue to function. Our previous ancestors were charged taxes to create power, water and other infrastructure. Upkeep costs are minimal compared to profit based scam. Ex. 200 billion dollar broad band scam, smart meters, water meters.
We can all protect our environment for ourselves and the future generations without setting up this 'global warming - charge you for the carbon you breathe out, type permanent payment system the elites are trying to enforce. Ex. Agenda 21, carbon tax, 'new' green deal.
All things should be debated and discussed without reverting to shill type tactics, name calling and diversion. Through meaningful discourse can we advance things for all.
My simple rant on planned obsolescence went a little longer than planned.
Our economy is based on production, not consumption. Investment of time and capital is what creates the goods and services that others consume - this is the basis of a market. If people want those things you mention, the market will respond. There should be no central planning, rulemaking, or other body that forces anyone to produce or buy anything. Period.
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That's not logically consistent.
If production is dependent on consumption to exist, it logically can't be the foundation - or you're just playing kind of silly semantic games.
People shouldn't be forced to buy or produce, but that's an issue of personal freedom we definitely need guide rails - i.e. people being told they can't buy or produce certain things at certain times.
A perfectly free market can only work if:
1) consumers act in a rational self interest
2) producers act in a rational self interest
3) there is a perfect information exchange working along side it, so consumers and producers are able to decide things rationally
One only needs to look at the last couple elections to see that none of those are currently true. I'm not sure if they ever will be.
Don't ignore the history of our country, we moved away from a totally free market for a reason. What we do need to do is make sure we work to improve to make a free market as viable as possible and meddle as little as possible.
production is not dependent on consumption. I can go out and work the field and produce food. My labor provides me with abundance I can use to accomplish other things. A perfectly free market always works if you accept there will be correction. Certainly people can't always act in a rational way.
I'm just not sure where you are going with this. Describing how markets work isn't ignoring history - market meddling is what gets us the mess we have today.
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This is just like typical liberal blabber.... complain without proposing any real solutions. I suppose we should all get rid of planes, cars and maybe even houses. We can go back to living in shacks, or maybe even caves. Then we can use a horse & buggy and zeppelins for air transportation. Hey, why not, none of this would have a negative impact on our economy or way of life. And guaranteed nobody around the world would starve to death from it. It'll be perfect, a outright utopia that the libs want!
The thing that the libtards fail to realize is that the free market is the best solution for any of these woes. In other words, if there was something better, we'd be doing it and someone would be getting rich from it. Therein lies the issue... there's nothing better (yet). You can't power a 747 with solar or batteries. Also, a recent study has shown that electric cars have severe issues with distance (battery charges) when the temps drop below 20deg F. That would be great for our economy if all vehicles were electric... For several months out of every year all those darn tractor trailers hauling goods would have to stop every couple hundred miles to recharge their batteries. No, it's complete idiocy for the likes of AOC and her ilk only.
If you're such a genius to raise the issue, then figure out something realistic & better to solve it. Because we know all those darn scientists, chemists, inventors, etc. working on fusion and stuff are just sitting on their assess and not really trying, right?
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We do what gives the central bank the most power, what buys them the most gold for the least made up money.