Topic: Causes for the crisis
Why did the crisis happen? We all know about the problems people had to pay for their houses. But why? The cause i.m.o. is simple. Oil prices going up, makes everything more expensive and causes inflation. You have people getting rich and poor but this made the entire world population less rich as whole. Economic crisis erupted. Oil prices went down, and economy had a small revival. If oil prices raise to much the economy won't revive unless we become far more effective.
People fail to understand how every barrel of oil provides a massive amount of labor. Like Romans we consume a lot of labor only we have far more slaves for each civilian, and they are more powerful as well. Using oil more effectively means all of your slaves are working to their full potential.
Note how oil itself is not the only factor here but oil prices are a good indicator for prices of other energy resources like gas coal or even wood. Also there was a problem with other resources like eg iron but that had less influence I think.
If it wasn't for the houses it would have been something else. The core problem was the production cost here.
Only few solutions to prevent another crisis like this. Only 3 options to solve this:
1. more/cheaper oil
2. more effective use
3. an alternative
or a combination of the 3
any thoughts?