One of the main features of our time is the accelerated crossing of borders.
Historians estimate that the knowledge of mankind doubled on average every hundred years until 1900. Today, we only need about a year to do this.
However, the speed of knowledge and information growth continues to increase exponentially. Researchers at IBM already explained in 2016 that developments such as artificial intelligence and the “Internet of Things”, which are on the verge of a breakthrough, will trigger a veritable explosion of information and knowledge in the very near future. Then it would no longer take years or even centuries for the common knowledge of all people to double, but only eleven to twelve hours.
So, the ability to cope with negative developments and crises is also growing at an incredible speed!
Shifting boundaries, in turn, sets other borders in motion!
In relation to the overall knowledge, the individual knows about more and more contiously less and more and more about increasingly less in his specialization.
The verifiability and comprehensibility for the individual in relation to the overall knowledge comes up against insurmountable limits. But what cannot be known as knowledge enlarges the realm of faith in many ways.
Thus, culture and believing trust also play an essential role here, the positive shaping of which can ultimately only produce an open and transparent society with no lies and high trust.
But just there all kinds of conspiracy theories develop on the fringes of society. In such constellations, populism serves the desire and the belief that it can bring about simple solutions.
The spread of lies and the anxiety created by Trump is highly damaging to economic development in a society with high complexity. Trump could mean the beginning of an economic decline in the USA.
By lowering the transaction costs in worldwide communication (mobile phone, Internet), the controllability of the masses was initially restricted by totalitarian or autocratically ruled states, whose supreme enemy remains free information and opinion-forming (Iran, China, Russia, etc.).
However, the autocratic states such as Russia and China have reacted, and they are now trying to control communication in their favor and thus keep the masses under control. Likewise, the manifold manipulation and spreading of anxiety in democratic states has become one of the main battlefields of the Third World War.
Research and knowledge have freedom and trust as the basis for development, and therefore totalitarian states will fall behind.
The previous business model of a liberal and anxiety-free America, which has attracted the best and brightest “minds” from all over the world, could come to a standstill under Trump.
It is therefore highly puzzling how Trump can be trusted with even the slightest economic competence.
Even in simple questions, such as the contractual design of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, he has caused enormous damage and chaos through a “primitive solution” in ignorant arrogance.
How is such a man supposed to implement sustainable economic concepts with close friendly states and good allies in the even more complex questions of difficult international economic interdependence, which is also overshadowed by major conflicts of a third world war?
Trump’s alleged economic competence is his own invention in the election campaign without any substance.
And Kamala Harris is right when she characterizes Trump as a failure on economic issues and accuses him of losing 200,000 jobs during his term in office, while almost 16 million new jobs were created during the Biden/Harris term.
