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> The economists and politicians can't conceive of trying to restructure the economic model to the lived reality

Yeah, I mean that's the definition of thought hegemony. People think that moving the moon is easier than changing the current economic model[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-louie-gohmert-forest...

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> People think that moving the moon is easier than changing the current economic model

Of course it is. All it takes is for someone to fund designing and deploying a very reliable mass driver, and then prevent it from being shut down or destroyed for some reason or other. That's a walk in the park compared to what politicians call a Tuesday.

Getting a lot of people to positively agree on something, when it's in the immediate self-interest of each of them to disagree, has always been the hardest task for humanity.

In all honesty - if we could avoid economic disaster by moving the moon it'd be a lot cheaper than what's actually ahead for us.

Unfortunately big changes are ahead of us (or our kids) no matter what we attempt to do to keep things from changing, including moving the moon. We better stop lying to ourselves and at least face the music. However, not all of these changes are bad though.

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