Most people's idea of the economy is abstracted into some combination of Scrooge McDuck's vault plus a wormhole that automatically keeps it filled (I don't remember any explanation of how Scrooge's stays filled) while a sinister conspiracy maliciously forces scarcity on everyone else out of simple malice. With access to the conspiracy (and thus wealth) being based on complete random chance.
This combined with the absurd claims of macroeconomics "experts" (who all know magic rituals but just refuse to use it for their own personal advantage) is how we have a world where every idiot thinks policymaking is that you simply pull the levers labeled Good Things and the even stupider (and corrupted) people who keep winding up in power can't stop themselves from pulling all the Bad Things levers. Which is somehow even dumber than the old divine right monarchial concepts.
Been over a century since central planning was logically refuted and everyone still acts as if the problem is just that the right pure of intent people haven't been given absolute power to take care of the simple task everyone knows needs to be done.
This combined with the absurd claims of macroeconomics "experts" (who all know magic rituals but just refuse to use it for their own personal advantage) is how we have a world where every idiot thinks policymaking is that you simply pull the levers labeled Good Things and the even stupider (and corrupted) people who keep winding up in power can't stop themselves from pulling all the Bad Things levers. Which is somehow even dumber than the old divine right monarchial concepts.
Been over a century since central planning was logically refuted and everyone still acts as if the problem is just that the right pure of intent people haven't been given absolute power to take care of the simple task everyone knows needs to be done.
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