After careful research of statistics since the beginning of human civilization, I have come to the following conclusion:
You can actually gauge an economy's health based on the following indicators: how bad people are acting. In other words, if there is pervasive wrong doing, crime, or general distasteful behavior between people; it is a measurable indicator that the economy is in bad shape.
An economy works on a spectrum. It is more like that than either good or bad. I can actually theorize that how people act and behave is actually directly corresponding on a similar spectrum, supported by the observance of an increase in mental illness, crime, scam artists, as well as other activities that are negative in nature, yet not enough to be a crime or go unreported. There is a massive snowball effect that occurs as the number of people acting badly increases beyond that which anyone trying to do good or stop them can control. I have no doubt that this could lead to the total collapse of civilization in some cases; however, in many cases it could simply lead to prolonged abuse and hardship in a population that gets worse and worse over time, leading to poor leaders that are authoritarian leaders, and care little about the well being of people. When more and more people are struggling due to a bad economy, it drives them to begin taking actions which are negative, which then causes a pinball ricochet effect of more negative things happening, people getting hurt, and more bad things happening as a result.
Trump's tax cuts no doubt did a large part in helping the economy; however, because it works on a spectrum, there is no way that the economy has reached a high level of health as of yet. Much more is needed to accomplish that. Lack of doing so could actually increase all problems, even producing out of control population growth like in India, just like before because the economy is still in pretty bad shape overall, although slightly improved by tax cuts.
Briefly touching on what I mean by right and wrong or good and bad, I want to emphasize specifically that I mean any kind of actions that negatively affect people. For example, I read about tariffs on trade coming from China. That indicates a poor global economy health. China is negatively effected, having to pay money to export goods. This isn't a political essay on good and evil. I mean specifically actions that affect people in a negative way being those that characterize "bad behavior".
Interestingly, I can draw conclusions about bad behavior that show that when more negative actions are being taken, it leads to more negative actions that don't even involve financial matters as well. In other words, it could increase the number of murders as well, not to mention general numbers of abuse of all types both emotional and physical, even to innocent people and even to those who are weak from stress and suffering already.
We need to pay attention to all indicators in the form of people behaving badly. Yes, people can simply behave badly; however, there is a very clear relationship between the health of an economy and the number of people behaving badly. This only shows even more how important the health of an economy truly affects a population, the true measure of the impact on every individual.
