The Inner Monologue

Oh, bless your heart. You’re still holding out hope for coal mines, rusting factories, and industries that peaked when people thought “Y2K” was the biggest threat to humanity? Adorable. If your economic policy can be summed up as “But this is how we’ve always done it!”, then congratulations—you’re not just stuck in the past, you’re actively auditioning for a role in Economic Collapse: The Musical.

Let’s break down why doubling down on yesterday’s industries is like bringing a horse and buggy to a Formula 1 race.

1. “Global Competitiveness” Is Just a Fancy Term, Right?

While other countries are busy inventing things like “renewable energy” and “artificial intelligence,” you’re over here trying to sell steam engines and fax machines. Newsflash: the world moved on. But sure, keep telling yourself that your “high-quality, artisanal coal” will make a comeback any day now.

2. Technology? Never Heard of Her.

Automation, AI, and green energy are just passing fads, right? It’s not like entire industries have been obliterated by innovation before. Oh wait—they have. But by all means, keep pretending that factories running on 1950s tech are totally going to outcompete robots.

3. Growth Is Overrated Anyway.

Who needs a thriving, dynamic economy when you can have stagnation? Sure, funneling all your resources into dying sectors might mean zero innovation, zero new jobs, and zero future—but hey, at least you’ll get to say “We kept things the way they were!” right up until bankruptcy.

4. Nothing Unites a Country Like Mass Unemployment!

When your beloved legacy industries finally keel over (and they will), the resulting job losses won’t just be “a little oopsie.” They’ll trigger full-blown social chaos. But who cares? At least you got to delay the inevitable by a few years while pretending everything was fine.

5. Subsidies: The Economic Equivalent of Duct Tape

Throwing taxpayer money at zombie industries to keep them on life support isn’t a strategy—it’s a denial ritual. It’s like giving a CPR to a skeleton and hoping it’ll start dancing. Spoiler: It won’t. But hey, if you enjoy setting money on fire, by all means, keep subsidizing the past.

6. History Loves a Delusional Underdog!

Remember all those towns that bet everything on a single industry and then turned into ghost towns? Of course you don’t—because you’re too busy repeating their exact mistakes. But this time will totally be different.

The Cold Hard Truth: Adapt or Die

If your economic plan is “Let’s just keep doing what stopped working 30 years ago,” then enjoy your front-row seat to collapse. The future belongs to the flexible, the innovative, and the brave—not to those clinging to the wreckage of the past like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic.

But hey, if you really love the smell of decline, by all means—keep dreaming. The rest of us will be over here, building something that lasts.