You Can’t Fix It If It Isn’t Broken. Step 1: Break It

You Can’t Fix It If It Isn’t Broken. Step 1: Break It

You have heard the recent proverb “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Turns out that in practice, there is a corollary: “If you are going to fix something, it needs to be broken.” Think “Build Back Better” as defined by Clinton, Biden, and Schwab (Klaus). The “build-back” part concerns me. Who is going to break it so it can be “built back”? And what is “it”?

Do We Have ‘Creative Destruction’, or Just Plain ‘Destruction’?

Do We Have ‘Creative Destruction’, or Just Plain ‘Destruction’?

There definitely seems to be a lot of destruction going on today – in nearly everything and everywhere. Doom and gloom pervades. Is this widely beneficial ‘creative destruction’, or just destruction done in order to acquire power and gains for just a very few? Or something else? The answer I found is far from obvious, and may surprise you.