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As the executive and regulatory function of society, government is analogous to the central nervous system.

While money and banking, as the economic medium and its distribution system, are analogous to blood and the circulation system. There has always been this tension between economic forces doing their best to siphon wealth out of society, versus the need to sustain it as a whole body.

The problem of money is that as linear goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, markets need money to circulate, while people see it as signal to extract and store. Even Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.

Since money functions as a social contract, enabling mass societies to function, where the asset is backed by a debt, storing the asset requires generating debt.

One way is squeezing it flowing through the larger economy, requiring the system to run on debt and drawing that saved money back into circulation.

Which is bit like the heart telling the hands and feet they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get. The Ancients devised debt jubilees to reset this, but we lack that degree of basic perspective.

The other main method is having government as debtor of last resort. The capital markets couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment dollars.

The wars and bloated military are just a burn pit, so more can be borrowed.

Which goes to the basis of Reaganomics.

Our government is just a sugar daddy, but the account is running out.