Purposeful Economics - Value, Values and Purpose
Unintended consequences often take time to manifest, and often occur outside of the timescales/focus of politicians/investors.
Seeing houses/land as profitable "investment assets/vehicles", rather than "homes for families", results in high housing costs and reduced birth rates ...
... reduced birth rates results in the decline of a nation, and the death of a civilization if the birth rate falls below 2.1
... and if this happens a nation will become reliant on mass controlled immigration to survive ...
... which is where Britain is now ... land is 'banked', house building deliberately slowed to maximise profits, prices/rents through the roof, birth rate now less than 1.5, and net migration nearing 800,000 in Britain last year.
Voices talk of reducing controlled immigration to reduce a secondary reinforcing feedback loop into further housing shortages and higher housing costs. This attempts to address a 'symptom' (nb a correlation). It does not address the 'root cause' (ie causation). For this reason it will not solve the underlying problem and it will not stop the 'decline of a nation' or the 'death of a civilization'. Moreover, as a result of additional unintended consequences (eg further workforce shortages and less tax receipts) such changes will only accelerate the rate of decline (rather than address it).
We need to understand the difference between 'correlation' and 'causation', and to address causation we will need 'purposeful action', Purposeful Economics, and Purposeful Government ... all dedicated to creating a thriving, flourishing Purposeful Britain†.
David Clift
Purposeful Ambassador®
Co-founder, Purposeful Education
Founder, Good Turns & Purposeful Enterprises
Co-developer of Purposeful Britain and a Purposeful World
† Purposeful Government™, Purposeful Economics™, Purposeful Britain™, Purposeul World™, Purposeful Councils™, Purposeful Education™, Purposeful Enterprises™, Purposeful Organizations™, Purposeful Communities™, Purposeful Investors™, Purpose Driven Government™, Purposeful MP™, Good Turns Foundation™ etc are all recognised/registered trademarks.
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