The poor and impoverished state of the world is no true wonder given those that have claimed for themselves the “duty” of exceedingly routine disruption and wholesale distrust of markets in favor of their own very narrow interests and abilities. These are the people that give us such incompetence passing as expert and “useful” central planning:

A massive *French* land invasion of Syria, while a terrible idea, would at least be useful economic stimulus.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 16, 2015

Nothing like another great war to solve “intractable” economic problems, especially when they are made so by the same people aching for destruction in order to correct themselves. When you put that idea together with this blindness, there can only be long periods of despair:

Venezuela is now the world champion of inflation, homicide, insecurity, and shortages of essential goods–from milk for children to insulin for diabetics and all kinds of indispensable products. All this despite having the greatest oil reserves in the world and a government with absolute control of all state institutions and levers of power.

You can also sense the real nature of what we are being faced with, namely that those claiming economic proficiency and aptitude seem awfully and strangely obsessed with power and control rather than economy and labor. Their view seems to be that their control and power just somehow yield economy and labor as if a byproduct, which is the only way you can get to viewing war as some kind of “stimulus.” At least Krugman”ism” inspired 34,435 people to petition the government to build a death star while the professor himself called upon space aliens. Uselessness knows no boundaries upon orthodox economics.

Maybe there is some benefit to it, after all. War is the ultimate form of dedicated and purposeful redistribution, thus it is in kind with “softer” attempts such as “inflation” and fiscal redistribution. The results, wanton destruction and too many broken windows, are therefore in kind.