Crisis versus arithmetic

The application of arithmetic tells us in an easy and understandable way that income minus expenses gives us the balance, which can be positive or negative. Hence the importance of knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide—what we colloquially know as the four rules—to help us figure out where we stand in accounting terms.

This truth leads us to reflect on politics: What is happening to us? Crisis, what crisis?

Nature, albeit in long, cyclical terms, speaks to us, and sometimes harshly... Experts tell us we're in the midst of climate change. But history reminds us humans that we repeat many mistakes and don't learn; that is, we don't become aware. In economics, the cycles are shorter, not as short as arithmetic, but time and again it catches us off guard, and how. How can it be that 1% of humanity concentrates more wealth than the rest? This overwhelming wealth can't be explained by arithmetic alone, I think.

Reflections

What would happen if, instead of spreading poverty, wealth were spread? Because the more people on the planet, the more equity values ​​will be needed to establish balance and achieve better coexistence. This, which seems possible by applying only arithmetic, turns out not to be the case. What makes it impossible? I know it's more complicated, but I like it to be understandable, that is, GOOD and EVIL. I even believe that, since childhood, some feeling told me what was right and what was wrong, without needing to go into details.

There are so many examples piling up right now: wars – there has been talk of a third world war for some time now – food – child malnutrition is a global problem – emigration of all kinds: economic, ecological, etc.

It is true that the United Nations, on June 26, 1945, signed the document in San Francisco for a more just and orderly world, a world of harmony. But the truth is that the governance necessary to stop, for example, current wars is lacking. One might ask: why? I can only provide one parameter that I haven't mentioned in the arithmetic: interests, which are distinct from benefits. These interests, along with profit (balance), when EVIL (which we have said exists) acts, there is no equity or human values; there is only the personal ego of boundless greed. There is no need to name the main actors in the film; they are public and well-known.

That's how I see it.