All too true. I described the global carbon tax plan. I did not mean to imply any form of approval.
All levels of civilized society above the level of tribes or clans rely on the division of labor and the exchange of produced goods in trade to maintain the benefits of organized exercise of allocation and distribution to individuals living in larger and larger groups. Interrupt this division of labor, or the free exchange of goods and services for some short-term objective unrelated to market forces, and the façade of prosperity quickly fades.