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If someone said that covid cost the economy X would you claim that was charlatanism based on other unknowns, or would you accept that there is some broadly calc
by benj111 4y ago
If someone said that covid cost the economy X would you claim that was charlatanism based on other unknowns, or would you accept that there is some broadly calculable cost of covid? If so then you can work out the cost of Brexit by subtracting that figure.
I don't deny it makes things more difficult, but unless you want to give up entirely on attributing costs to such things, you have to accept that the cost of Brexit is also calculable.
- coldtea 4y ago>If so then you can work out the cost of Brexit by subtracting that figure. If only it was just easy, and outcomes from multiple factors could just be isolated and "substracted from the figure". Even the sole "cost of covid" alone, with just the regular uncertainty of measurement would be disputable (whatever it was) - doubly so when it coincides with two huge other affecting factors... Heck, even good old GDP measurements border on charlatanism - and that's under fair weather..