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Bad analogy - the banking system doesn't fall apart if you miss lunch
by anoncareer0212 7y ago
Bad analogy - the banking system doesn't fall apart if you miss lunch
- pjmorris 7y agoActually, that's exactly how banking systems fall apart, if you push it too far.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoActually, that takes such a broad view of the analogy that it has no semblance to the analogy, only the idea of completely ceasing all spending
- excitom 7y agoYou basically proved his point. The analogy is correct but no one cares if a little guy can't buy lunch. Same problem, different scale.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoHN comments tend to have more charity than other places online – it's unlikely I "proved his point" by answering his query regarding if it's a bad analogy :) Its not that "no one cares" about "a little guy", it's that even though I didn't eat lunch today, my colleagues did. If me skipping lunch meant my colleagues didn't have any food, someone would step in to avoid my colleagues dying