r/humor • • 14h ago

Economy made simple

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u/ELLISDETRIP 13h ago

Circular finance. Learning from the Ai ceos

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u/kylo-ren 8h ago

It is almost as if the war were not between countries, but rather a class struggle.

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u/swift-autoformatter 5h ago

Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round

The Dead Kennedys song about this very concept, released in 1987…

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u/deschj62 7h ago

With a president who is a Russian asset.

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u/akathatdude1 5h ago

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u/Crappin_For_Christ 5h ago

Keeeeeepin the monnnnney moooooovin!

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u/wytewydow 10h ago

broken window fallacy

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u/Nicios 10h ago

That is not a fallacy, a lot of russians have left this world because a broken window 😅

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u/wenoc 8h ago

For those of you like me that hadn’t heard about this fallacy before:

It comes from Frédéric Bastiat’s 1850 parable. A boy breaks a shop window, and onlookers console themselves: the glazier gets paid, he spends that money, and the economy hums. Bastiat’s point was that this only counts what is seen (the glazier’s job) and ignores what is unseen. The shopkeeper would have spent that money on something else, like shoes, which would have employed the shoemaker and left him with a window plus shoes. Instead he has just a window. Society is poorer by one window.