[cantankerous]

Mainstream economics reads like a flat earth Facebook group when you see how many times it's failed to predict booms and busts despite being considered acceptable as such.

[kvgr]

There is more than one mainstream economics thinking. Not all countries and schools use the same. Some borrow parts from other schools.

[dools]

Yes and sadly they almost all start from the faulty premise that money anything other than a tax credit

[tclancy]

Especially compared to all the other systems that do a lot better which we haven’t adopted.

[kvgr]

For example?

[tclancy]

I think you figured it out.