{"id":29833,"date":"2022-11-29T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:31:18","slug":"what-worksism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/11\/29\/what-worksism\/","title":{"rendered":"What worksism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mqaODYJ702s\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama &#8211; Protecting Democracy and the Commitment to Facts | The Daily Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This starts around 23:29 in the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe point, though, is they&#8217;ve got some blend, some mix. There is an advantage in terms of efficiency and also freedom to a market system.  You have a control system. You have some guy in an office is deciding how many potatoes we&#8217;re going to grow this year. That usually does not work. The flip side of it is that what we&#8217;ve also learned is that some guy in a boardroom is deciding, I&#8217;m going to  ravage the environment to do whatever I want, that doesn&#8217;t work either. So we&#8217;re going to have a blend of some sort.  We want some collective decision making about the social good. And we want something that&#8217;s efficient and dynamic and allows us to exercise our innovation and freedom. And we don&#8217;t need to worry so much about the labels as we do about being practical and thinking about what&#8217;s working and what isn&#8217;t.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mqaODYJ702s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>This is what I call &#8220;what worksism&#8221;.  The trouble with Obama&#8217;s administration is that he made some horrible decisions about what was working and what was not.  We cannot exercise our innovation and freedom in a private market that is controlled by oligarchs as monopolists.  Privatizing natural monopolies like infrastructure is a terrible idea.  Efficiency is not always the primary feature you want to emphasize.  There is a place for worrying about resiliency.  If you have a system that is highly efficient, but highly fragile, then that is not a good compromise.  It takes more nuanced thinking than saying you don&#8217;t want some guy deciding how many potatoes to grow this year is a necessary of part of socialism, than a guy deciding on just-in-time efficiency in private enterprise being a necessary part of capitalism.  High resilience to the detriment of all concerns about efficiency is not a good compromise either.<\/p>\n<p>Having a financialized and de-industrialized economy is not a good compromise either.  Nobody talked about why China&#8217;s compromise, mixed-system was beating the USA all to hell in world trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Barack Obama &#8211; Protecting Democracy and the Commitment to Facts | The Daily Show This starts around 23:29 in the video. The point, though, is they&#8217;ve got some blend, some mix. There is an advantage in terms of efficiency and also freedom to a market system. You have a control system. 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