I don't know, to me, I think the problem is lack of supply- We have companies which under-produce to keep the value of a product high, and we have manipulation of the very free market idea of supply and demand. I think, if we were to really want to make the free market work, we should have only one regulatory law in place- If you compete in the free market, you respect the free market. The only thing illegal is attempts to manipulate the value of supply and demand of a product. Supply is how you counter demand-based inflation, so I think if we really want to fix ourselves up, we should really just get to business. Every person who is unemployed or homeless is educated to the best of our abilities and ability to be efficient in the basic skills of carpentry, welding, mining, machinery operating, iron-working, construction, and effectively everything to do with infrastructure. We use as much of the most effective and cost-efficient technology available to make the job easier- be this machinery or other new technologies. Then, we do nothing but build in such a way that preserves the environment and ecology, while creating so much housing, agriculture, commercial, and industrial capacity that by the laws of supply and demand, even an individual paid the most meager wage with poor frequency can afford a place to stay, food to go on a table, medical services, and recreation. If we were to truly apply what we know of science across all categories to every other category to aid in the development of technology, we would literally be able to create a world that suffers no hunger, illness, or vulnerability without any damage to the environment in the process. I don't care what politicians do- they're just following trends and spinning perspectives and mentalities to communicate to the majority, whatever that may require. The real problem is far deeper in the spread of capitalistic corruption's inky black tentacles into every reach of our operation; we've applied supply and demand to everything imaginable- even to people, and what's occurring now is that all of the demand and supply cycles are coming to a cyclic synchronization- If the environment changes much more(as a result of this cancerous effect of capitalism), the demand for water and food is going to break the system. I think, if anything, if we're going to be capitalists, the only laws we make are to restrain capitalism's method of function from changing how other systems operate. The free market should be as free as a bird trapped within the cage of a planet- but its principles should never be allowed to filter into other modes of operation and value. The reason for this is simple- If you have one system which determines a price of something, and you have it interact with another system which determines a price, supply and demand becomes an exponential operation, and the cumulative effect is what destroys civilizations and has destroyed civilizations in the past.
We ignored what we needed to build up- Some guy over in Europe built a flying car; and no country has seemed to notice that if people and goods can go from A to B in 10 minutes rather than 3 hours, it'd help things move along a bit faster. We're so worried about losing the jobs in the airline industry that we don't realize we could have equally as many jobs working to build FLYING FREAKING CARS. Road maintenance too expensive? Where we should've been by now- we wouldn't need roads.
