Unsimplified

Keep up your hope. There are incredible upcoming economic and technical advancements. Me and thousands of like-minded super professionals are quietly working passionately for you. Please.. we're trying our hearts out here.

Here's a perspective shift. Profit is just a term for the owners' wages. Grocery store revenue paid to anyone, employee or owner, are all at risk of not "closing the loop". Thus, profit is not the problem, though concentrating it at the top does usually slow the flow.

The real equalization problem involves everyone.

You can have growth without unnatural cyclic crises. Focus om the deeper causes of artificial crises (those without actual resource shocks).

So many intellectuals are thinking about the wrong ideas.

Return to the basics of trade and charity then focus on the flow of real goods and services as abstracted by the velocity of money from agent to agent.

Fundamentally, economic crashes are caused by dead money that represents concentrated, slow one-way trade patterns. Ideally, money flows across the people with perfect inclusion and closed-loops.

I've always thought that macroeconomics should be studied with a realistic perspective, and that does somewhat seem to be the direction economists are going with agent based modeling. Though perhaps too much on the math side and not enough fundamental thinking.

This is how I've always done my analysis. Start with 1000 people. Group them into 500 households along an age curve. Give each person a money account and assets along a wealth curve. Set up 100 businesses and the government. Study the dynamic system and gradually increase the realism/complexity with central banking, credit cards, etc. This is the hard unsimplified way but you will uncover the absolute truth of our system.

For a machine, is it generally a good idea to distribute a common power bus voltage like 48VDC to independent modules (embedded computers, servo controllers) for them to stepdown inside the application module (12vdc, 24vdc) or should the power be stepped down early at the distributor module? What are the advanced tradeoffs?

Within the monetary market model, the fundamental factors are money supply and money flow. To solve poverty and ensure that everyone has basic necessities satisfied, either buy from the poor or donate to them. These are the only civil options.