[jprete]

The economy isn't meant to serve us. It's an emergent system that evolves based on a complex incentive structure and its own contingent history.

[guerrilla]

Economic activity is meant to serve us. Don't be a pedant.

[dawidloubser]

But surely you can see that the economy does not serve us. Who is "us", anyway?

The economy, and the worldwide technological system that it fuels, behaves like its own organism with its own ultimate goal unbeknownst to us.

By looking around you, is it not perfectly clear to you too that it does not have anything to do with the well-being of people?

[guerrilla]

People work to eat. You missed the point entirely. I refer you to my first post on this.

[baq]

Nevertheless the modern economy has been deliberately designed. Emergent behaviors within it at the highest levels are actively monitored and culled when deemed not cost effective or straight out harmful.