Editing Sāmatvārtha - the Vision (section)

==== '''The Vision of Sāmatvārtha''' ====
'''“Sāmatva” and “Artha”: Sāmatvārtha.''' Sāmatva embodies balance, equilibrium, and harmony, while Artha represents not just material wealth but also purpose, meaning, and prosperity. I am no expert in Sanskrit, but this union of words perfectly encapsulates the policy proposals under this series. It is not about certain specific public policy frameworks - though that and the change management thereof is a big part of it - but it is also about a mindset, a set of principles and heuristics, and a better and more rooted vision of Indo-Futurism and Indic/Accelerationism.
 '''Sāmatvārtha is about radically leveraging the multiplier of technology, first-principles thinking, and price-discovery of markets. It is about respecting the freedom of our complex adaptive (eco)systems and preferring simpler heuristics over delusionary micro-management.'''
It aims to tame the collective action problem and internalize the cost of externalities. It is about turning one’s supposed weaknesses into strengths for '''leapfrogging into a futuristic Indic Civilizational State'''. It is about saving India from the charlatans of fabian-socialists as well as the subversion of candy-capitalists. Thus, this set of policy proposals will ultimately aspire to blur the lines between fiscal and monetary, hard-coding economic sustainability by default. But, to avoid disruption, a smooth transition is an equally important part of any reform proposal. Sāmatvārtha is also respectful of the need to balance the motion of change.

A holistic approach towards '''The Embedded Economy.''' A balanced approach to growth paradigms - one that embraces fair, sustainable, regenerative, distributive freedom of interactions between our plural ecosystems. It is not about chasing GDP growth blindly, or some monotheistic appeal to ‘equity’; '''It envisions a more open, prosperous, interoperable, sovereign, federated, modular, inclusive, sustainable, and regenerative future'''. But How..?
 '''Sāmatvārtha begins by rejecting many proto-notions and false binaries in the economic thinking memetic sphere: degrowth-vs-prosperity, altruism-vs-accelerationism, capitalism-vs-socialism, free-markets-vs-regulations, etc.'''
Economic policymaking has become a victim of over-abstraction and novation. Coupled with the need for rent-seekers to justify their existence, we get a spaghetti code of conduct. The bureaucrats of the fabian socialists wanted to predict and control how much you would consume, and when. On the other end, the marketing professionals of the candy capitalists want you to never stop consuming anything, even on credit if ‘need’ be! Cronyism is not even needed anymore for failure, and the system trickles down to corruption nonetheless.

'''Control freak begets power creep''', forgetting that one of the best ways to regulate complex adaptive systems is to have simpler heuristics for broad macro-governance, and not centralizing micro-management for every other interaction. This over-abstraction is making us lose sight of what is important!
 '''We over-engineer our policies with utter disregard towards the second-order effects. We pretend to know the unknowns or the market winners, all in vain to tame the complexity.'''
Either stupidity or malice, only for all of it to leave more loopholes and '''incentives for the rent-seeker and the corrupt'''. All of this does nothing else except fueling anti-governance and public-policy sentiments like ‘taxation is theft’, etc. '''The baggage of the socialist.'''

We are also frequently consuming just for the sake of it. Shallow progress in lifestyle - often an illusion - to justify the concentration of resources at the top! Trickle-down, at what ecological costs? Society needs to find better goals than reducing the purpose of life to just hedonism - i.e. ‘need to consume more, capture more, exploit more’. The singular focus on GDP is not only justifying consumerism but is also now coming to exploit the care economy in the name of increasing that GDP number. Goodhart’s Law on steroids at the population scale! '''The subversion of the capitalist.'''

Between all these memetics of economic, technological and cultural thinking, the deep history of our planet - and maybe our existence - is of many cycles of progress and destruction. To restrict ourselves with notions of the past few centuries as being the end of history is doing a grave injustice to the possibilities of both - progress and destruction.