Ocean Book posted:

The money system is typically simultaneously extremely efficacious (capable) and extremely inefficient (wasteful) at utilizing resources. This is a tradeoff. Periodically, the money system stops being even efficacious due to a recession.

It's so loving stupid. 5 days before a recession, roads, factories, stores, consumers, resource gathering, etc etc all proceed at a steady reasonable pace. 5 days after a recession, all this activity grinds to a halt. Why? Did we run out of factories? labor? grain? steel? roads? No, we ran out of money. Money isn't a necessary part of the production of any good or service, it's only a signaling device. If you have a signaling device that works OK at best and totally fucks right out about 1/8 to 1/2 of the time, maybe your signaling system sucks.