The Economy

For someone to "run" the economy?  Sounds like communism. 

because people don't work solely for the good of others?

Well if wheeler, with 1 single post, thinks its a good idea, then who are we to argue?

This stuff is too heavy.

" @Godwind: and y is that a bad thing? "

" @Bobdaman18 said:

" @Godwind: and y is that a bad thing? "

Why is that a good thing? "

" @Godwind said:

" @Bobdaman18 said:

" @Godwind: and y is that a bad thing? "

Why is that a good thing? "

He asked first! "

God hates tetris 
 

  Tetris is an action puzzle game where the player rotates falling block shapes to make them fit together in a pile. When a row is filled, it disappears, keeping the height of the pile of blocks from increasing. As the game progresses, it continually speeds up until the player starts making mistakes that allow the blocks to reach the top of the game area, ending the game. Tetris is unwinable, you can only put off your inevitable defeat. This fatalistic aspect of the game should come as no surprise since it was originally created in 1985 in the Soviet Union, where the Atheist government taught everyone that there is nothing but a bleak, pointless existence followed by death with no chance for Salvation. It is claimed that the word "tetris" comes from the game pieces all being made of four blocks. In reality, the game was named in mockery of the Trinity by adding a forth hypostasis, the Communist State, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Because it is simple to program, versions of Tetris can be found on every game, computer, and operating system. There have even been implementations of Tetris done using computer controlled lights in office buildings, turning the lighted windows into the falling blocks. The ubiquity of Tetris is also because it is highly addictive. Its repetitive gameplay and use of a repetitive Russian folk tune causes players to slip into a hypnagogic state, making them receptive to the Communistic themes inherent in the game imagery (everyone is an unindividualistic block that must be made to fit together in Soviet conformity, and sometimes whole lines of people are made to disappear without any explanation). This is intentional, since, like all work done by the Soviet Academy of Science where Tetris was developed, it was part of secret military research, in this case having to do with mind control. (The US military also researched mind control video games in the 1980s, including one called "Polybius", but we never used them during the Cold War, unlike the Soviets who unleashed Tetris into the general public where it's still affecting people to this day.) Because of its fatalistic worldview and the danger it poses to people's God-given Free Will, all implementations of Tetris get ZERO CROSSES. 

" For someone to "run" the economy?  Sounds like communism.  "

Communism only works in the minds of tweenagers wearing their Che Guevara t-shirts, though

" because people don't work solely for the good of others? "

Basically, the USA and the UK do not provied the world with anything much these days... only money. And the banks lost all of that so really we're screwed for a good few years.

" @Amorfati: Communism is when there are no classes, no oppression, everyone is equal and there is no state. Every man helps the other. So, yeah. if there was Communism then a "communist" would work for the good of others. However, we're human and we don't do that, so Communism isn't possible! Every time we tried to better our position compared to someone else we'd be betraying the tenets of Communism. "

Wait.....why are we supposed to be impressed by him? What has he done?

One man running the entire economy is way too much to swallow. He would have way too much power, and these days, anybody would abuse that power, even if they swore not to.

" @Godwind: and y is that a bad thing? "

@RJMacReady: 
"Progressives, i don't believe, understand this property of the market"

Progressives,  masters of the universe, blond hair blue eyed boys of the west, or whatever you call them, dont know their economic history, all that has happened, has happened before.

" Basically, the USA and the UK do not provied the world with anything much these days... only money. And the banks lost all of that so really we're screwed for a good few years. "

" @crunchUK said:

" Basically, the USA and the UK do not provied the world with anything much these days... only money. And the banks lost all of that so really we're screwed for a good few years. "

Hey look all we have to do is borrow (more) Chinese money.  Then they can dictate our policies! "

"One man running the entire economy is way too much to swallow. He would have way too much power, and these days, anybody would abuse that power, even if they swore not to. "