Yes I understand this is still a triage-style bill. Yes I understand there is a lot of need for band-aids before people can even think beyond their next meal. But there is a deep reluctance to even think about the nature of the damage and what long-term recovery might entail.
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Otherwise it leads to thinking Bill Gates lives 120 billion times better than average burger-flipper simply because he has a 120 billion times the net worth of the median person with no assets. Most of that money is Stack fuel. He probably only is 10-1000x happier than you and me
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Enterprise money vs consumer money? Not a bad idea actually. Things like food stamps get at that. As do things like earmarked capital equipment grants to industries. Separate power money from survival-and-hedonism money. Bread-and-circus bucks vs. infrastructure bucks.
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Financialization would actually be a good thing if it included almost everybody in its logic, and encoded what everybody knows about the system. It’s currently terrible because it reflects a tiny minority view of how the world works. A bunch of 0.1% idiots trading green lumber.
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