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I always think of the Fed as the doctor who overprescribes antibiotics or the fire brigade whicb won’t let even a spark go bu in the forest without flooding the

I always think of the Fed as the doctor who overprescribes antibiotics or the fire brigade whicb won’t let even a spark go bu in the forest without flooding the whole zone in order to prevent a fire. Sometimes you have to take it in the chin like a man and spend 5 or 6 days with tonsillitis and congestion. The following week will be amazing because you are back to normal and appreciate all that you took for granted. Food, drinks, even mundane things such as breathing normally Same thing with fires, sometimes the soil needs a violent fire to clean weeds and old trees and disseminate nutrients down the soil We know these concepts at the micro-level, it’s about time we learn them at the societal level. People are longing for the end of the boom-bust cycle. If anything we need them to be more violent and in line with what Nature does with the 4 seasons

voisin 4y ago
We, as a society, do not reward leaders who follow this. We are our own worst enemy, like petulant children we demand our candies even as our teeth rot out of our heads. There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times. We are firmly in the weak men period.
- Jerrrry 4y ago
  >There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times. careful, that phrase and kind of talk will have you labeled a misogynist incel that hates women. Anything that recognizes the need for (strong) men in society is inherently bad. We will soon reap the reward of that cowardice.
  - lukas099 4y ago
    I mean yeah, surely women play a role in the world too. Unless by "men" we mean "people", in which case why not just say that?
  - voisin 4y ago
    I take “strong men” in the quote to be men willing to take the harder but correct path - not kicking the can down the road the way our “leaders” all seem to do now.
- HWR_14 4y ago
  The quote suggest a way the world works, but there is no evidence that it is close to accurate. I admit it is rhetorically pleasant.
- lukas099 4y ago
  I'm really tired of hearing that meme without any substantiation. It seems like you could just as easily say that bad times make bad men (make bad times...). Look at places in the world (or your own hometown) that are "bad" (high crime, low social trust, etc.). Are those the places that are producing the best people?
jjoonathan 4y ago
The last president who initiated a controlled burn quickly got voted out of office and is widely remembered as a bad president, while his successor got to take credit for the regrowth. Any politician who hears your proposal would agree in principle, but in the back of their head they would be thinking "do I want to end up like Carter?"
- twblalock 4y ago
  That's not what Carter did. He inherited a bad economy from Ford and Nixon and failed to fix it. We expect our presidents to fix problems whether they caused them or not. At the end of 8+ years of a bad economy, oil embargoes, and leadership that conveyed a depressing message for the country's future prospects, the voters were rightly displeased with Carter.
  - jjoonathan 4y ago
    Remind me, who installed Volker again? Who cranked the interest rates? Who got voted out of office because they finally cranked the interest rates high enough to tame inflation?
- JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
  Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? The term limit is there to press people and to make them think that when it’s all over they look back and should be proud of something they have done, not a mere “the pollsters told me to do X and I did X” Unless you do whatever you want being POTUS sounds like a hellhole job. All day building coalitions and having meetings , being mostly sedentary, no privacy, constant assassination risk, constant attacks…and at the end of the day a bunch of pollsters are your boss. You get to ride in AF1 but that’s not unlike a Boeing Business Jet and there are some also available for private charter
  - lukas099 4y ago
    > Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? A president must choose their battles and use their political capital wisely, lest they burn it all and are unable to accomplish anything else for the remainder of their term.

voisin 4y ago

We, as a society, do not reward leaders who follow this. We are our own worst enemy, like petulant children we demand our candies even as our teeth rot out of our heads. There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times. We are firmly in the weak men period.

Jerrrry 4y ago
>There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times. careful, that phrase and kind of talk will have you labeled a misogynist incel that hates women. Anything that recognizes the need for (strong) men in society is inherently bad. We will soon reap the reward of that cowardice.
- lukas099 4y ago
  I mean yeah, surely women play a role in the world too. Unless by "men" we mean "people", in which case why not just say that?
- voisin 4y ago
  I take “strong men” in the quote to be men willing to take the harder but correct path - not kicking the can down the road the way our “leaders” all seem to do now.
HWR_14 4y ago
The quote suggest a way the world works, but there is no evidence that it is close to accurate. I admit it is rhetorically pleasant.
lukas099 4y ago
I'm really tired of hearing that meme without any substantiation. It seems like you could just as easily say that bad times make bad men (make bad times...). Look at places in the world (or your own hometown) that are "bad" (high crime, low social trust, etc.). Are those the places that are producing the best people?

jjoonathan 4y ago

The last president who initiated a controlled burn quickly got voted out of office and is widely remembered as a bad president, while his successor got to take credit for the regrowth. Any politician who hears your proposal would agree in principle, but in the back of their head they would be thinking "do I want to end up like Carter?"

twblalock 4y ago
That's not what Carter did. He inherited a bad economy from Ford and Nixon and failed to fix it. We expect our presidents to fix problems whether they caused them or not. At the end of 8+ years of a bad economy, oil embargoes, and leadership that conveyed a depressing message for the country's future prospects, the voters were rightly displeased with Carter.
- jjoonathan 4y ago
  Remind me, who installed Volker again? Who cranked the interest rates? Who got voted out of office because they finally cranked the interest rates high enough to tame inflation?
JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? The term limit is there to press people and to make them think that when it’s all over they look back and should be proud of something they have done, not a mere “the pollsters told me to do X and I did X” Unless you do whatever you want being POTUS sounds like a hellhole job. All day building coalitions and having meetings , being mostly sedentary, no privacy, constant assassination risk, constant attacks…and at the end of the day a bunch of pollsters are your boss. You get to ride in AF1 but that’s not unlike a Boeing Business Jet and there are some also available for private charter
- lukas099 4y ago
  > Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? A president must choose their battles and use their political capital wisely, lest they burn it all and are unable to accomplish anything else for the remainder of their term.