Chatelot16, you write
... it's like driving a car with only the brakes or accelerating in mind!
what is more important is to choose the right direction.
The most important thing is to know how to drive ...
I will translate what you express next, in terms which are closer to me.
The frenzied extractivism of the “glorious thirties”, together with an increase in productivity had allowed a strong development of tertiary activities which are “parasitic” activities in the sense that they appropriate part of the industrial gains, constituting as many “false” fresh "(what you call unnecessary activities).
This trend was amplified, following the fall in the rate of profit (which results from the rise in productivity) because the solution was to relocate industrial production where the possibility of further gains existed.
By playing on the fall in production prices, it became very interesting, for a time, to sell what was manufactured far away.
This process cannot last long because of the economic short circuit it causes: less creation of value, therefore fall in purchasing power, partially concealed by artificially low prices and the massive recourse to borrowing.
We are at this phase; to believe that it is enough to encourage "useful" activities is an illusion: utility in our system is that of producing value and only that, and the industrial system, even (hypothetically) restored, is not more capable..
True utility has nothing to do with this concept of "production of value", if not to muddle the cards between these two concepts.
It is also a mistake to believe that it suffices to lower the cost of labor in order to restore financial margins: on the contrary, the reasons for the post-war economic "boom" result from a joint increase in productivity, wages and payroll.
It is very likely to think that a national redeployment would make it possible to remedy the current evils: the economist
Mr. Allais (who had the favors of
Dedeleco) and the demographer
E.Todd, currently well in court with the new government, are delusional about the fact that a national framework could exempt us from the rules that govern the world.