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You're not reading what I've written. But I was waiting for someone to bring up the broken window fallacy. The answer is that the unspoken assumption on which
by rwallace 9y ago
You're not reading what I've written.
But I was waiting for someone to bring up the broken window fallacy. The answer is that the unspoken assumption on which it is a fallacy is that resources in the economy are otherwise optimally employed. Back when it was coined, that might have been close enough to the truth to be a useful approximation. Today, it's very much not.
I don't think this argument has become particularly constructive, so I'll let you have the last word, but I suggest instead of just pattern-matching what you think I said to something you've heard somewhere else, try stepping back and just looking at the facts as they are.