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> A lot of our economic machinery more or less bakes in some big assumptions about the size of the workforce not declining Do it like software: if the implemen
by 1996 5y ago
> A lot of our economic machinery more or less bakes in some big assumptions about the size of the workforce not declining
Do it like software: if the implementation doesn't match reality, fixing the implementation is easier than trying to fix reality to match the broken assumptions
- dorgo 5y ago“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
- 1996 5y agoGood quote. But if you believe it is reasonable or desirable to engineer social changes to increase the birth rate to be able to create and support economic growth, I think your priorities ordering is not right