How many self-made calamities does it take to teach a civilization a lesson? We’re finding out the answer the hard way.

No, actually, we're not. Even the hard way appears to be above the abilities of the average slow bus-riding, window-licking, helmet-wearing, dullard that is the average voter.

As soon as you suggest "investing by the one entity that can afford anything that is for sale" they come back at you with Delerium based upon econ myths and nonsensical garbage whispered into their ears by every agent of the plutocracy, of which there are legions. They, barely able to solve for x, or balance a checkbook on a good day, suddenly vomit all of the propaganda they think they know about economics and "gubmint spending causes inflation" back at you.

Worse yet are the various fetishes, such as the actual Fedish, as in Federal Reserve "loans" money to the government, or those who think it is necessary to completely tear down and rebuild the world's largest economy from scratch to "afford" the cost of saving our species and half of all other life on our planet.

We always could fund the infrastructure and economy necessary to dig ourselves out of this miserable hole that kills more of us than Putin could ever hope to. We just really love licking the boots of the oligarchs so much that we would rather be just an interesting "find" for some future archeologists, whatever species they may belong to, after our mass suicide by stupidity than apply some simple logic and curiosity to our predicament and the economy that is killing thousands of us daily as it is at the moment.