the capital goods (means of production) we produce and export determine both our domestic and foreign policy. if we want to change our politics, we have to change the capital goods we produce *beforehand*.
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taking political power just means taking over the levers of influence over an economy that largely produces things that create the political problems we’re struggling to resolve. you can’t revolutionize the economy by tweaking those levers.
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the economy itself has to provide different political incentives. whether supply side or demand side. if we want to move past a fossil economy we need to make capital goods that enable that.
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politicians will say out of one side of their mouth that we need to move beyond oil and on the other side say we need an economy that works for everyone. well then we need to change what we produce!
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and unfortunately you can’t just pass a few reforms and suddenly stop selling oil rigs and aircrafts. would be sweet if you could but this transition is going to take decades and only moves *more slowly* because of our political system.
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this is why i think, generally speaking, highly engaged political people should focus more on changing the economy and less on the elections. “we can do both” isn’t useful because the question is “can we do both fast enough”.
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