The real problem is that we are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, reciprocal world.

The tension this creates for economics is that while money functions as the medium that needs to circulate, in order for markets to work, we treat it as the signal to extract from the noise of society and the economy, to save and store.

Consequently ever more has to be added, to keep the system running and ever more inventive ways to store what has been extracted.

The result is a metastatic financial system that is consuming the economy, not serving it.

Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but it doesn’t take much knowledge to understand that a store and a medium should not be mixed up. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.

It not that people are irrational, but that economists are clueless.

https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-worm-in-the-apple-of-modern-capitalism-a46081000d5a