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Breaking windows sounds more like physical damage
by NullPrefix 4y ago
Breaking windows sounds more like physical damage
- chrisdirkis 4y agoI'm not sure what else "economic damage" could refer to that isn't some sort of physical cost? If, say, an activist uses social media to incite people to blockade a road, making 10k people an hour late for work, that's up to 10k less hours of stuff done^1. That's a cost, even if it's a "virtual" one. Say x% of those people worked in healthcare, that's x00 hours less healthcare done, and that's people killed in expectation. ^1: or up to 10k people working an hour late, which is a cost in and of itself.
- NullPrefix 4y agoI might have been wrong. I thought that "economic damage" means something like release some bad press release, which wipes a lot of economic value from stock prices.
- t6jvcereio 4y agoDamage to any thing of value is also economic damage. Someone's resources, natural or labor, will be consumed for replacement.