In the mixed economy in which we live, it is the function of the planned state: to guarantee “full employment” (given that the federal government's own policies generate unemployment); stimulate "technological innovation" (not through the market, but through subsidies); guarantee a “fair” income distribution (rewarding parasites – mainly large businesspeople linked to the government – ​​and punishing productive ones); control foreign (and also domestic) trade; and maintaining several state-owned companies for the good of the people (while fleecing the people themselves for the benefit of these state-owned bureaucrats). Heterodox economists and conventional economists take turns providing economic advice to the current president. Both, however, are mere tools in the service of the interventionist state.