Our Economic Crisis

We don’t know how far-reaching this crisis will go and we do not know how long it will last. We know we don’t want it to continue, but we don’t know how to stop it. We do not know who “needs” to be bailed out. We don’t know how much to give them or even how we could give it all to them. We don’t know what regulations should stay and which rules should be grown.
The economy is the center of conversation and the economy is the center of many people’s troubles. And yet, in and of itself the economy is nothing. It is something we have created and put into being. Without us, without the people, the economy has no power; the economy has no existence. We give the economy the power to rule and trouble us. Not that “economy” doesn’t exist, but it’s a label for a system that is made of men. “We” (in the broad and general term) are choosing to live and die by something that ultimately, has neither existence nor any power.

Then are these effects real? Of course. But how can something that is a working idea (the economy) affect something that is its creator (mankind)? We let it. It isn’t the “economy” that has taken our money, it is men. It is the selfish and greedy choices (I speak generally and broadly again) of men. The economy is the tool which we choose to make it. It will become whatever shape we mold it into. Our choices have consequences. They have been and could be very harmful. The faults within our system provide evidence for this point.