@notimp
just out of curiosity, are you from japan?
Perhaps. However you could say that the negative consequences of miscalculations when people disregard "intelligent planning" can be brutal.
I just think that we so intertwined at a global scale now that reverting the clock is a excercise in futility (and from my beliefs, maybe thats for the better if not atleast so we could all learn some empathy from one another and that the actions of some governments will have effects on others)
No, I picked the flag way back when, when I actually was a lurker around here. Just because videogames/japan, there was a connection. Just a fluke, because I have the habit of entering wrong information in online profiles, when its not essential.
Now I'm too stubborn to change it.
In regards to intelligent planning on the big scale - ok, then plan away if you (the theoretical intelligent planner on the world scale, that might not exist
) must.
Just know that if you produce stuff like "we've got to abstain from economic growth for a while - to save the old economic system", and then you follow that up with "we've got to abstain from economic growth for a while - while creating the new economic system" - people will notice, and start to rebel.
And rightly so.
They might not notice, that you produce lost generations here, in the developed world, but those who do will not react pleasantly.
So to all the intelligent planners out there, your planing sucks. It sucks so much, that I refuse to think of you as intelligent.
And no, the "but we have to drive globalization forward - and have everyone settle in on the same economic standard, thats lower than in the past, and with a widening gap between the top and the bottom within a society", because on average it reduces more harm" stance is not a sufficient excuse.
And if you then resort to PR to sell it to folks, we'll hate you even more. Signed, the critical thinkers.
(That dont want to look at every issue with "world scale" in their minds. Because we have noticed, that a few things get overlooked that way.
Also I personally would hate to live in a society that consists entirely of ivory towers, and rural "self governing" areas, where the "non important" decisions are handled. But thats just me.)
Also dear intelligent planner, the world economic crisis of 2008 was a hoot wasnt it? And that everyone acted "legally" in within their limits producing it was as well, wasnt it? And that as the public sentiment you spread just that notion was a hoot, wasnt it. And that you now have a risk management thats recoupled with asset management as a solution is admirable, but that you do that while announcing to the world, that the importance of the european market will size down more to reflect their actual population numbers, while advertising to the world, that population numbers dont count in the automation age. And you do all that while announcing minor growth spikes (0.5% max) over the next 10 years as a result of the automation and digitalization sectors, then to be followed up by - nothing, because you really outcompeted the demand side in terms of efficiency... Well, if I should swallow all that as intelligent planing, while convincing myself, that people following a child saint politically in europe, that tells them that the world is going to end, because of minor changes in rainfall and snowfall propensity in my childrens lifetimes (in comparison to the actual IPCC target of 2°C) is the new normal - I'd go mad. Sorry.
The way thinktanks work, btw, is that you have people think about isolated potential solutions to issues - then you count on those to be implemented that are situationally, and politically viable at the time. That in itself is more patchwork, than intelligent planning.
