People call me an asshole whenever I bring this up but isn't the market kind of theocratic? Not in the obnoxious "money is your God man!" but just practically speaking doesn't the whole structure feel like a church? Economists feel more like they're running off intuition rather than measuring objective data because that data is inherently skewed just by the nature of collecting it.
>>40974033who is calling you a asshole for this?
End the fed.
>>40974033Nice dubs.praise KEK. Also bump for interest.
>>40974033asshole
>>40974033>>40974977Praise KEK
>>40974033Look into the agricultural adjustment act of 1933. They were killing livestock and burying milk and practically salting the fields as offerings to the economy deity, so bad number become good number!
>>40974033You’re right and it’s because economists are trained to maintain the current economic system not actually to understand the currents of how people act within the system. That’s the realm of mathematical game theory.
>>40975027This is an example of maintaining the system above all else. America was too fruitful so the government used tax money to destroy food to maintain the economy. Instead of just nationalizing the industry and giving everyone cheap food and paying the farmers good prices with the tax money.
>>40975061It's obscene. I've had people try to defend it to me.
>>40974033Always has been
