> In fairness, governments also frequently fail at accounting for resiliency, even when that's their explicit goal, so perhaps the incapability to account for resiliency goes beyond the economic system.
That's because governments are run by the same braindead efficiency-first mindset these days.
It used to be easy to campaign on resiliency back when the USSR still existed - no matter what, all NATO countries had really large armies, months worth of stockpiles of everything from arms and munitions over medical supplies to food. Education was heavily invested in because the countries needed well educated adults to compete with the external threat. Companies kept stockpiles and had detailed disaster recovery plans and drills, not just for natural disasters but also for "how the fuck do we keep production running when the Red Army is marching towards the border" and "how the fuck do we transition from building cars and motorcycles to tanks and fighter planes when the Great War breaks out".
But once the USSR fell and the "end of history" was announced [1], all of that resiliency went down the drain - it was expensive after all and neoliberalism / "starve the beast" ideologues demanded that the "inefficiency" be cut to lower the tax burden on the corporations and the rich... and here we are, our education systems in shambles, companies got screwed left and right when covid hit and supply chains broke, and our societies in shambles as well as the people didn't have much reserves left after decades of wage stagnation and companies didn't either so they laid people off.
That's because governments are run by the same braindead efficiency-first mindset these days.
It used to be easy to campaign on resiliency back when the USSR still existed - no matter what, all NATO countries had really large armies, months worth of stockpiles of everything from arms and munitions over medical supplies to food. Education was heavily invested in because the countries needed well educated adults to compete with the external threat. Companies kept stockpiles and had detailed disaster recovery plans and drills, not just for natural disasters but also for "how the fuck do we keep production running when the Red Army is marching towards the border" and "how the fuck do we transition from building cars and motorcycles to tanks and fighter planes when the Great War breaks out".
But once the USSR fell and the "end of history" was announced [1], all of that resiliency went down the drain - it was expensive after all and neoliberalism / "starve the beast" ideologues demanded that the "inefficiency" be cut to lower the tax burden on the corporations and the rich... and here we are, our education systems in shambles, companies got screwed left and right when covid hit and supply chains broke, and our societies in shambles as well as the people didn't have much reserves left after decades of wage stagnation and companies didn't either so they laid people off.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...