No matter what

No matter what you want to do, it takes money to do it. So if you want to change the world, it's gonna take money. 

No matter what your plan is, you're gonna need money.

Every day my wife gets junk mail from another group with a good cause, seeking a contribution from her. Every group has its own purpose, and the purpose never has anything to do with the economy, except of course that they all need money.

As things stand now, these groups are competing against each other for her dollars. This is zero-sum.

If instead these groups could agree on a plan to fix the economy, and support this plan in addition to their own individual cause, there would at least be hope that all their causes could be solved.

Yes of course the plan I'm thinking of to fix the economy is my plan. The wrong plan cannot fix it, as we should have learned by now. But don't miss the point: If the economy is fixed, their causes of concern start going away. If it isn't, the near-term result is an increase in social-cause junk mail. The longer-term result is the collapse of social order, continued economic decline, and  eventually  the fall of civilization.

The point is that if they get together on an economic plan -- any economic plan -- they are showing their commitment to solving the problem that created the causes they focus on. Without such a commitment, the whole social cause junk mail system is a plan with no path to victory.

That's my point. But don't forget: The wrong plan cannot fix the economy.