Quote from: adam.sandler on July 25, 2025, 05:27:57 PM

The thing is you are also quite right that financial freedom is what makes people conservative. i bet that what can help to avoid this trap is to establish such a culture that teaches people to take risks and fail. In other words, in case we create such systems which would make the failure endurable (such as social protection) and encourage creativity, we would probably be able to eliminate recessions. Tough, to do that we would have had structural change.

Westen society in so called advanced countries overdo their concern for security by establishing health care, often "free" in the past, now at a price.
Those create a mechanism.

[quote author:Douthat, NY Times]basically, the argument in that essay was that the dynamic, fast-paced, ever-changing modern world was just not nearly as dynamic as people thought, and that actually, we’d entered a period of technological stagnation. That digital life was a breakthrough, but not as big a breakthrough as people had hoped, and that the world was stuck,[/quote]

In 100% commerce the digital part is about 30%. Of those 30%, 30% go into social media. (and of those, most go into Facebook) And exactly here the "digital life was a breakthrough, but not as big as people had hoped" makes more sense. We see a similar approach to AI, "everyone is using it", so digital platforms scream on top of their lungs. Google's Searches have seen an increase by 10% and those did not go into the AI Box.

When someone does not claim credit for something, he/she has reasons. That is just human.

Quote from: adam.sandler on July 25, 2025, 05:27:57 PM

we must be challenged at all times i.e. through competition, major threats (such as climate change),

Or war, People need to be made aware, that there is no security, nature in this case is a helpful factor.