2 modern ideologies: cybernetics & game theory, i.e. macroeconomics and microeconomics, unseeing each other.
Keynesian cybernetics systematically extends credit to too-big-to-fail, causing secular increase in relative frequency of Moral Mazes.
Classical economics takes a nation's perspective & tries to increase its wealth. Neoclassical game-theoretic ideas like Pareto improvement assume a nation is made of agents in conflict. RBC theory specifically unsees cybernetics.
Simple example of Keynesian effect: Corporate drugstores with cheap access to capital price out or buy out independent pharmacies. This is the underlying situation in 13 Reasons Why. 6 Feet Under is about the same sort of thing, overtly recognizes the new order as Fascist.
In old order a pharmacist needs to be able to keep accounts like a microeconomic agent. In new order, they need to be able to pass the Asch & Milgram obedience tests like a good employee.
Hayek's price signals coordinate actions between independent rational agents without the need for expensive explicit reconciliation of beliefs and interests across agents, allocating more credit to agents better at satisfying each other's preferences.
This is similar to cybernetics as a reduction to coordinate behavior across nodes, but promotes very different agents than Keynesianism does.
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