A Confession

When I read stuff like this, there is always a part of my brain thinking, "But...this is all just a game we made up, right? If everyone around the world is getting fubared by this game, let's stop playing it and make up a new game with better rules!"—because even though I know it's not that simple, it is nonetheless weird to me when people, even very smart people, talk about the international economy like it's something that just exists without identifiable genesis or discernible reason or any ability to change it, like air or David Hasselhoff.