We’ve reached the end of our economic model.
We just don’t realise it yet.
It looks like growth on paper - 0.2% this year, 3% in some countries.
But our population is shrinking.
Those are two ends of the same candle.
Every year a greater share of our economy gets taken by:
Energy
Housing
This is dead money - if the money isn’t going to create something new, we’re growing by increasing the waste.
Dating apps monetize what was once free.
Single earning households become dual income households, hiring a nanny or childcare.
The economy is doing what it’s designed to do, make every possible exchange monetisable, measurable, taxable, investible.
It looks like growth but are we actually any better off?
That’s the failing of our current economy model.
Most of us aren’t actually motivated by money.
We’re motivated by something deeper and more important - meaning, a calling.
Community, people.
Something it doesn’t make sense on paper - in the numbers - but it does make sense in the future reality.
So listen to your gut more and yourself.
What will our future system look like?
Our systems zig too far one way and zag too far the other.
It’s a global competition and everyone is competing against each other.
When we become too capitalist and optimize the wrong thing we get exposed by the one that’s doing the other thing.
That’s why the global south is catching up.
If Japan optimizes for one thing then its population shrinks, another country
Everything reverts to the mean.
So it will resolve in the end just by the law of competition and evolution.
But it’s just a shame that we waste time when we can start solving these things now.
Improving our metrics, more digital governance, abundant housing and energy.