Traditionally one’s job or position has been referred to as a “Hat”. The problem with Economics and economists is it/they don’t wear all of their needed Hats.

First they need to put on their accountant’s Hat and actually look at the datums that are relevant. In other words they need to look at total costs produced and enforced upon enterprise and compare those costs with the individual incomes they simultaneously produce and distribute. That relationship of total costs and total individual incomes will reveal a scarcity of the latter in virtually every business, making it a dynamic and flowing factor. Discovering this puts their economist’s Hat squarely on their head.

Then they need to put on their philosopher’s Hat and decide for themselves whether they think such a system, even if it can be dealt with in a palliative sense and “for a season” by continuous borrowing/lending….is an ethical system….at all. Their answer to that question will let the outsider know who actually has ethical and moral fortitude…and who is merely a poser.

Finally, for those who sincerely see the unethical nature of the present system, it is incumbent upon them to seek the idea, the concept that penetrates the deepest, the most powerfully and the most ethically and so actually resolves the situation….and then keep one’s focus and drive upon it so that some lesser compromise with the actual problem and with the problem’s ethics does not delude them that a solution has actually been found. Such principled approach and dedication to it is the hallmark of the true Guru/Bodhisattva/Saint and is the Hat of same.