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The economy is not a human body.

• charcircuit 4y ago
  It's an analogy
  • zopa 4y ago
    A bad one. What's the insight here? If a body were a nation-state, it'd be a totalitarian hellscape where life is cheap, individuals exist only to support the collective and some populations are invaders to be exterminated.
    • utrack 4y ago
      I'd call it a complex system. It's entirely possible to have a component in a system that may disrupt the whole system in a whole new, unpredictable way. Just like some sort of asymptomatic tumor which breaks the whole body once it metastasizes.
      • zopa 4y ago
        Yes, and as I don’t want metaphorical chemotherapy for the country I’d prefer we chose a different metaphor. An analogy shouldn’t just be some strained parallels, it should lead us in useful and not destructive directions.
        • utrack 4y ago
          Oh, fair enough. Something surgical would be best :)
  • hirako2000 4y ago
    What is the relation between people's inability to notice having a brewing disease and business predicting turmoil in the future hence going for the diet?
• edgyquant 4y ago
  Maybe not a human body; but it is /a/ body and it is true that those things are not a good condition to have for prolonged periods of time.