Like, the planet is gonna be uninhabitable???

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    All the economists who keep saying "it makes no sense to do anything right now because advances in technology will make it cheaper to address in the future" get the gulag

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Mmm, yes, economists, the people most qualified to know what future technological developments will look like. What, engineers? No, we don’t need to ask those nerds.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Economists have something even better than technical expertise: the future discount rate.

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          It's hard to point to any one voodoo concept from the trash-heap of orthodox economics that is singularly the most damaging, but that one has got to be a top contender.