Comment by jostmey
4 years ago
Perhaps the solution to preventing complex systems from collapsing is to built in a reset button to rest and restart. Most of us became used to regularly restating our early PCs, which is how we delt with these complex systems collapsing. I speculate the human body does something similar when we sleep, which is an example of a highly complex system
A lot of the relevant researchers basically define complex systems as the systems that you don't or can't understand well enough to simply reset and restart, nor would that be an appropriate intervention strategy most of the time. Should we drain lakes and put in new soil and water every time there's an algal bloom? Similarly, you can't truly reset an economy, or a polity with anything we'd call "reasonable methods".
Eh, just remove all the laws and invalidate all the money every n years. I'm sure this will have no negative consequences.
Invalidating money every n years could work because it forces people to make an arrangement with people in the future. However, it would be simpler to introduce a three month expiry date to cash bills that demands you pay 1% once it expired, resulting in -4% interest per year. People will be glad to lend out money at 0% as they avoid the -4% interest on cash.