People As Dollars

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)

An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure, right?

Somehow, these people below weren't even dollars, until they finally became enough dollars to catch the World Bank's attention?

That's not an effective survival strategy.

It seems that we need to ditch our bank-oriented approach, and revert to both banks and currency as simple methods serving a nation-oriented approach - or eventually a species-oriented approach. Instead of we the people serving our banking tools.

World Bank sees possible Ebola hit in billions of dollars

How many lives have misguided World Bank policies wasted, these last 70 years?

What is it about current greed vs future resiliency that the World Bank has totally failed to understand, has forgotten, or simply chose to ignore?

What would Ben Franklin say to us now? That he's ashamed of our short sightedness?

Reverse Engineering Ourselves Back To A Less Perfect Union.

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Maybe we'll all go to jail soon, for trying to expose actual fiat currency operations?

There are growing numbers of clumsy responses, to citizen oversight of fellow citizens. Are these responses sliding to adaptive, or reverse social engineering?

We know about attempted prosecutions of Snowden & Assange. Yet there are many, less publicized citizen whistleblowers now facing prosecution, and/or already held in jail, uncharged.

Imagine a world where the only place where fiat can be safely expressed ... is under the protection of Russian gangsters! Oddly familiar?

Why is this happening? We can't hide everything from all the people, all the time?

Can anything adaptive come of it? That depends on our distributed assessments of our collective outcomes, and our subsequent, cultural adjustments. That is, if we're still capable of adjusting.

Is there a better way? Always has been. It's up to us to find yet another one.

What's that old saying?

No sub-group of bumbling bureaucrats is ever as smart as all of us?

So who says that prosecuting the smartest of us ever works out in the long run? Shoot the messenger just slows unavoidable adjustments, and is always maladaptive.

The issue is not whether various public agency bureaucrats are trying to do THEIR job as THEY see fit.

The issue is always their individual and group intelligence! If an electorate can't select the right people for the right jobs, AND PREPARE THEM WELL ... then everything gradually ends up in the crapper. 

Yet if citizens DO select well ... then something called a functioning democracy can occur. With byproducts like a functioning currency system, and functioning markets. Even a Middle Class!!! Remember that? We used to have one.

And what if an electorate can't or won't select to PREPARE it's own, budding citizens well? Literally everything just ends up in the crapper even faster?

Random examples:

Think EVERYTHING wired isn't bugged, at will?  Instead of going to any length to protect ourselves from people we tick off, it's leaner/faster/better to simply pay a bit more attention to not ticking people off in the 1st place? Ounce of prevention vs pound of cure? That's how evolution works.

Stratfor Works on Silencing It's Own Whistleblowers. (The story of one citizen is classic. Why not elect him, instead of jailing him?)

FDIC Prosecuting It's Whistleblowers too. (FDIC is silencing this whistleblower, Dwight Haskins.)

Whistleblowers can be everything from criminals to martyrs, but they always inform their public, and hence serve an adaptive purpose. By definition, efforts to prevent transparency inevitably cause more harm than good to every "system." If we aren't transparent, we aren't an agile system. If we can't expose our own operations, how can we keep finding better ways?

So Why Not Endorse "Surprising" Methods To Heal An Economy?

commentary by Roger Erickson

Or prevent recession in the first place?

How about some bionic policies, and transplanted ideologies?
Surprising Methods Heal Wounded Troops

What part of an ounce of cheap prevention vs a pound of expensive cure doesn't our electorate understand? If our population grows larger and our economy more complex, surely any idiot could recognize a need to look for ways to prevent disorganization, and methods for finding ways to actually increase coordination in a growing system.

Sure it's difficult, but when has American ingenuity ever shied away from an insanely great challenge? Since we invented political parties?  Youth of America, this government has failed you totally.  Time to look for some insanely great innovations in more Open Operations.