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People try new things. Sometimes those things work.
The problem isn't that ideas are floated and failed. It's that systems calcify around people in privileged positions.
Economic models in 2026 are far more advanced and improved than ones from 1626
That tendency of systems is precisely why I'm skeptical of any real systemic change to occur.
Advanced and improved are vague terms. 1) Are the systems today better for the common man? And if so, how? 2) If it takes 400 years, then it's largely irrelevant to anyone concerned with systemic change within their own lifetime.
Systems endure until they don't. A system with a long history tends to have a more entrenched position and a wider base of supporters.
If you want a full categorical break down of 400 years of economic plans and conglomerated practices, I might point you to your local university and advise you to pick up any number of lectures on the subject.
But if you're just going to "Nuh-uh" everything since the Dutch East India Company incorporated...