It is a testament to your courage and rationality you aver that correspondence of productivity to supply of civilian needs must apply, despite the many decades of state management of incomes and economic participation of individuals. The market is inexorable, implacable, and shielding individuals from it's voracious maw creates insuperable expectations and marked misunderstanding of the necessity of that correspondence from the sheltered.
Sadly, the universal application of the state to all civilians creates a universal dependence on it, and only when the entire population suffers intolerably is it's insufficiency no longer obfuscable. Given the lack of understanding the population accustomed to dependence on the state, and their unfamiliarity with market forces on a personal level, when that eventuality is forced upon them by malignant external economic pressures, as Cuba certainly is confronted with today, the people have no grasp of the means by which to surmount their suffering by virtue of the productive merit, as there has not been any correspondence between their economic productivity and their economic expenditures, those metrics being the sole province of the state in a Communist government.
Cuba thus faces a dire deficit of understanding of capital and it's application, particularly as capital is not money, but actual wealth which is primarily the beneficial relationships of love and affection that binds society, but also comprises the goods and services necessary to humanity civil society avails. In a state of nature, trees expend their capital of sugar and nutrients in the spring when producing new leaves in seasonal climes where winter is unproductive of sunlight - something Cuba isn't as affected by - to profit from photosynthesis in the summer. This understanding of capital outside of financial metrics reveals that centralization, not capitalism, is the actual defect of financialization that Communism affects to solve, and that informs understanding of potential solutions the Cuban people can undertake to resolve the inability of the government to overcome the financial warfare waged against Cuba by the US.
Such understanding is outside even overtly Capitalist polities, as profiteers obscure understanding of their herds from which they derive their sybaritic wealth, lest that population on which they parasitically depend apply sound understanding and apply it to themselves retain the benefits of their productivity and reduce the flow of wealth to their overlords. The advance of technology today ubiquitously occurs by decentralizing means of production, which disenfranchises centralization by all economic metrics, including financial. Given the economic reality that nature is capitalism in action, as living organisms invest in physical features like teeth and claws to profit in the form of protein and carbohydrates by consuming their prey, the people of Cuba might better gain understanding of the utility of decentralized means of production to their economic plight if productivity is decoupled from financial means, but considered from more natural flows of nutrients, habitat, and the resources necessary to species in natural ecosystems.
As these are the ultimate necessities that human beings actually need, being unable to live in piles of money, to eat piles of money, or wear money to insulate them from the rain or morning chill, and government being focused on financial metrics, perhaps approaching economic realities might be more rapidly attained and real wealth necessary to living in the real world become realized by the people of Cuba from the perspective of ecology, rather than finance.
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I find your understanding of what capital is very interesting and sound, naturally connected with your vision of how we need to be more proactive in securing our sources of consumption to gain true independence. Incidentally, this week a student here presented to colleagues a proposal on the development of solutions based on the use of 3D printers for the Cuban context. I remembered your guidance on this issue.
Thanks for your always helpful feedback.