Promoting social welfare is not rocket science; it’s not that hard to do.
Economics is the study of human behavior in regards to material wealth. It is one of the Social Sciences, and all of them are linked. You can’t know much about any of them without dabbling in all of them together. Frankly, economics is highly dependent on other factors in any given society.
When people fear, they tend to hang onto whatever it is they think they have. If the world in which they live seems chaotic and unpredictable, they won’t take any risks. Without taking risks, there can be no economic prosperity. If the psychopaths running our government really wanted to have vast wads of wealth to tap into, so as to permit their schemes for exerting their political powers, they would stop using fear. Richard Maybury, a big money investment advisor, prefers to focus on two issues: Contract enforcement and property rights enforcement. When governments do those two things consistently, people will gladly take risks, and investment in high return projects will be common. There will be a matching high investment in research which produces the most amazing advancements in science and technology.
The problem comes when someone wants too much short-term control over some portion of this flow. Big Food (like Monsanto) and Big Pharma are two overlapping powers which currently militate against long-term prosperity, including their own. The Defense Industry is doing the same thing. When the parasites get greedy, the whole thing comes apart. That’s because economics and politics do not scale well.
Nobody seems to notice that. Indeed, take any course of study in the Social Sciences in any Western educational institute, and you’ll be led to believe exactly the opposite. All the pointers have been cherry-picked, carefully selected so the lessons of history always favor the short-term gains of the conglomeration forces, and utterly failing to see why this always led to ultimate collapse. The few rare subcultural entities which see beyond their own immediate generation are the ones which last throughout history. And the more any nation ignores the lessons of prosperity and stability, the greater will be its collapse.
You can find all this in the Bible, but it’s surely obvious without it. My education in the Social Sciences demands I point out what should be obvious to anyone, but my calling as a prophet burdens me with the necessity of warning everyone to flee any linkage to the US government. It is completely and insanely out of control. Perhaps you are like me, living in poverty. In my case, it’s the result of sane choices against an insane world. The only prosperity available right now is the result of doing evil, in most cases. So I’m stuck here, but I’m not tied to it. That is, I have no real allegiance to the system, because it’s about to come apart. It doesn’t require a Christian Mystical faith to make that choice.
What can you do with this? I’ll offer a few examples.
1. This is not a good time for men to get married legally. I’m all for life-long commitment, and I enjoy writing custom wedding ceremonies, but for the vast majority of American men in particular, and Western men in general, do not take a legal marriage contract with a Western woman. The state’s only valid interest is enforcing what the social structure demands, but the modern Western state has completely absorbed all social issues, and handles them so poorly, there simply are no words for it. Women are encouraged to act insanely, and you’ll lose everything you’ve accumulated. Not simply in terms of property, but everything a government can touch which makes life worth living. You can be thrown in prison for life simply on the basis of her personal spite. The state encourages her to be utterly deceptive and wholly untrustworthy before you ever meet her, creating desires and expectations neither of you can understand or ever achieve.
2. Don’t borrow from any institution. Loan sharks are currently more sane and safer than any lawful lending institution. I know no other way to put that, because the lending institutions currently run the entire government structure, and their reputation is whatever they say it is, even as they are wholly unaccountable. Loan sharks are still in the business of customer service and keeping a reputation which they don’t entirely control. Naturally, borrowing from more ordinary individuals is far smarter, if borrow you must, but this is the wrong time to sign any loan papers for anything. Anything.
3. Invest in usable items. In particular, prefer tools and equipment you know how to use, which are less dependent on the electrical grid, and don’t wear out quickly. Think about the stuff people need when life gets difficult, like after a disaster. It could be something as simple as good nylon ropes, solid shovels and axes, or a low maintenance hand truck or cart. How about sanitary liquid storage? Got emergency medical supplies? You might want to learn about such things as Dakin’s Solution [PDF] because you’d be amazed at what it can treat successfully. The one thing easiest to get and keep, and not lose to any hostile confiscations, is knowledge of how to live through a disaster, but short of that, good tools and supplies will mean the difference between life and death as things get more difficult.
4. Expect more natural anomalies and disasters. Aside from the nuclear meltdown in Japan and the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by sheer human idiocy, we are already tasting a higher incidence of natural disasters. While the expectation is easy enough to observe, and scientific research backs it up, it might require an element of religion to understand this is part of the same package with the social disturbances. Either way, this stuff is coming all at the same time, and it won’t matter which you regard as causing the other: more colder weather in the Northern Hemisphere, more weather anomalies of all types, geophysical instability, inexplicable wildlife die-offs, etc.
Fear in the broader sense of pessimism is currently an intelligent response. While the various government entities are trying to create a certain targeted fear to their advantage, it’s safe to ignore all that and recognize what is really worthy of fear. There is a lot of bad stuff coming, and prosperity is going away for most of us. Should you ride out the storm well enough, I hope you’ll remember why it all came apart, and do your best to promote a future prosperity on the other side of this mess. Don’t let things get so far out of control next time. Recognize what you can’t control, and accept the accountability for the things you can and should control. Concentrations of power and wealth are a threat to human life — always — and it happens when folks get lazy about taking responsibility for stuff God put in their hands.
