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There's a lot of evidence monarchy, dictatorship, socialism , mercantilism, and fuedalism also aren't great at long-term thinking.

What's your solution? Be China during it's golden age of credit expansion? Why not be the US during it's golden age of credit expansion?

I don't think there's a governing/economic silver-bullet.

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The solution is to shift away from a system that hijacks our species' selfishness in the name of domination over nature to one where we live in harmony with the environment. Only one of the forms of government you mentioned has threatened human extinction.

Can someone explain why orf and RedXIII are being heavily downvoted without explanations? Aren't their claims generally (or often) true... sure, not 100%. Please explain why you are downvoting to enhance the discussion.

They like many of us now, dare speak up against the official dogma of the day.

However, most will argue capitalism has proven to be the most efficient way to allocate resources correctly. So it's quite unclear how to ie. incorporate externalized costs into the system, without breaking it.

Accountants make for terrible leadership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

Yes. This is a thing that exists. I’m not sure why it’s relevant to parents comment though.

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