What if the reasons we act the way we do go much deeper into the psychology and beliefs we live our lives by? How willing and able are we consider the patterns driving us to this point?

People are linear, goal oriented creatures, in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

Consider that the difference between a market economy and capitalism is that markets need money to circulate, while people see it as signal to extract and store. As a medium of exchange, it is a social contract and accounting device, enabling mass societies, but we assume it to be a commodity to mine from society, to save and store.

Blood is a medium, fat is a store. How hard is it to figure out storing the medium is dangerous?

As a contract, the asset is backed by debt. Besides the increasing centripetal effect of excess money being pumped into the system creates, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center and negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges, the capital markets couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Does it really take much more than some basic common sense to see clearly? Yet it seems difficult to get people to really look.

Here is a recent essay I wrote, trying to understand the causes, not just patch the effects;

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73