Without constant, vigorous wealth redistribution, capitalism leads to more and more wealth disparity and, as a direct consequence, worsening conditions for working people.

"We must not interfere with gravity!" even as our nebula turns into a solar system with a handful of massive bodies orbiting in an orderly plane, who with their enormous gravity draw any stray matter onto themselves.

So fiscal conservatism is bad. Fiscal conservatism is saying "We must not interfere with gravity!" while the world gets shittier and shittier around you, until people turn to fascism.

1930s, 2010s… 2090s? 2170s? Will we do this every 80 years until someone finally launches a nuke?

Must be why we see no sign of aliens harvesting stars out there (mentioning space twice in one comment). This is how civilization turns out. Evolution selects for pecking orders because pecking orders reduce conflict in the social group, and then when some smarter species starts a civilization, rampant dominance and hierarchy lead to subjugation of the masses, rising discontent, and cycles of political upheaval. Once your tech is powerful enough, each upheaval rolls the extinction dice. Roll those dice enough times and boom.

So yeah fuck fiscal conservatism. And fuck wage slavery, it's undignified. When people don't have dignity you get fascism, and then you get war.

Leave conservatism for blue collar jobsites where the idiot new guy needs to listen to his elders more. Don't try to apply conservative thinking at large scales, it doesn't work.