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Which brings us to the system level perspective
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Interreflections

Which brings us tothe system level perspective since the system itself simplyisn't...

Which brings us to
the system level perspective since the system itself simply
isn't designed inherently for steady state equilibrium

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Which brings us to the system level perspective
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since the system itself simply isn't designed inherently
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for steady state equilibrium.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
01:24:58
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Genres
fantasy, sci-fi
Production
Gentle Machine Productions LLC

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In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as w
Market economics is predicated on a more is better ethic. - Interreflections 00:05
Market economics is predicated on a more is better ethic.
More growth, more sales, more employees, - Interreflections 00:09
More growth, more sales, more employees,
So what happened was to be expected, - Interreflections 00:06
So what happened was to be expected,
What was once a simple media service, - Interreflections 00:09
What was once a simple media service,
In the later stages, companies spent more money on advertising - Interreflections 00:07
In the later stages, companies spent more money on advertisi...
What advertising does is abuse our social nature - Interreflections 00:07
What advertising does is abuse our social nature
They're not good enough without this, - Interreflections 00:05
They're not good enough without this,
They feel excluded from others if they don't own something. - Interreflections 00:05
They feel excluded from others if they don't own someth...
And as pathetic as all that sounds it had - Interreflections 00:11
And as pathetic as all that sounds it had
And the result as industrial productivity - Interreflections 00:18
And the result as industrial productivity
One thing that's really interesting in all this, - Interreflections 00:08
One thing that's really interesting in all this,
So here you had a model - Interreflections 00:17
So here you had a model
How do you justify these harsh outcomes of assumed scarcity - Interreflections 00:10
How do you justify these harsh outcomes of assumed scarcity
And the bottom line is this wasn't an economy at all - Interreflections 00:12
And the bottom line is this wasn't an economy at all
In systems theory this is known as a positive feedback loop. - Interreflections 00:05
In systems theory this is known as a positive feedback loop.
Don't let that word, positive, confuse you - Interreflections 00:05
Don't let that word, positive, confuse you
It means there's nothing working to balance system behavior - Interreflections 00:06
It means there's nothing working to balance system beha...
That environment in the case of Economics - Interreflections 00:07
That environment in the case of Economics
If respect for scarcity was taken seriously, - Interreflections 00:11
If respect for scarcity was taken seriously,
Manifesting of course a culture that's mature enough - Interreflections 00:07
Manifesting of course a culture that's mature enough