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Bad ideas die but it takes decades.
by username90 6y ago
Bad ideas die but it takes decades.
- paulmd 6y agoThey also tend to be resurrected once outside the immediate lifespan of people who lived through them. For example, "trickle-down economics" was once called "horse and sparrow theory" back when the idea was popular in the 1800s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics (where did "trickle down" come from anyway? Well, if you feed the horse enough oats, there will be some left for the sparrows. That's what's "trickling down".)
- wiredfool 6y agoYears to Centuries. Some die, some live on. Some come around again, like the unwelcome undead.