@KuteboiCoder @shortstories @vriska @frogzone modern economics comes from kings scamming people in to paying for the military industrial complex*. they paid soldiers in meaningless coins and taxed peasants so they were forced to trade food and goods to soldiers to afford the tax. it does exactly what it was meant to do.

a handful of people like douglas realized under an engineering lens that economics is not functioning (though he presumes it was meant to benefit the populace) and came up with social credit in an attempt to repair it.

ashby and beer approached trying to make a grammar to study and optimize organization of a workforce (beer directly says in Designing Freedom they should be 'optimizing for liberty') in hopes of mitigating the existence of management

* "Debt." Graeber.