03-23-2020, 06:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2020, 07:02 PM by Eric the Green.)
Trump is not a champion of anything but his own ego. He IS the crisis, not the solution.
Is this the crisis climax? No, that won't happen until the end in 2025-27. But it is part of the new normal. Vaccines are being developed and people do recover. There may be further such virus crises as long as we continue to encroach on animal territory and kill them to sell. That may be a long while, so this pandemic does seem like it could indicate part of the new normal caused by our environmental crisis: overpopulation and abuse of the land and the resources and climate change, etc.
UBI is not the only remedy for our oligarchic crisis. The full cure is to ditch libertarian economics completely and restart the 40-year pause in progress toward a truly mixed and green economy with the Green New Deal. Obviously Gary Johnson is not on the right track in this regard. Libertarian needs to go, to quarantine itself along with Rand Paul. A consumption tax would obviously hurt consumption which drives the economy and hurts the people who can't afford to pay it, while a progressive income tax helps to reduce the inequality and the power of wealth that has come back because taxes have been reduced and wages held flat.
Globalism is suffering a reversal, no doubt. It survives in the willingness to recognize this is just another global problem for which world cooperation will be needed. In the long run further globalization is inevitable, but there is always a need for protection and restrictions on occasion to regulate the flow of goods, and bads. The global society will be a federation, not a uniform power from above.
Is this the crisis climax? No, that won't happen until the end in 2025-27. But it is part of the new normal. Vaccines are being developed and people do recover. There may be further such virus crises as long as we continue to encroach on animal territory and kill them to sell. That may be a long while, so this pandemic does seem like it could indicate part of the new normal caused by our environmental crisis: overpopulation and abuse of the land and the resources and climate change, etc.
UBI is not the only remedy for our oligarchic crisis. The full cure is to ditch libertarian economics completely and restart the 40-year pause in progress toward a truly mixed and green economy with the Green New Deal. Obviously Gary Johnson is not on the right track in this regard. Libertarian needs to go, to quarantine itself along with Rand Paul. A consumption tax would obviously hurt consumption which drives the economy and hurts the people who can't afford to pay it, while a progressive income tax helps to reduce the inequality and the power of wealth that has come back because taxes have been reduced and wages held flat.
Globalism is suffering a reversal, no doubt. It survives in the willingness to recognize this is just another global problem for which world cooperation will be needed. In the long run further globalization is inevitable, but there is always a need for protection and restrictions on occasion to regulate the flow of goods, and bads. The global society will be a federation, not a uniform power from above.