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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
By the same token, as a weatherman I can safely say "It will rain."
I'm not saying anything bad about economists, simply that chaos makes it near impossible to get a meaningful prediction.
BTW this is exactly the reason why command economies don't work. If we could predict economy in a meaningful way, we could perfectly plan an economy and set perfect regulation.
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Actually, you can plan it. That's communism, and it works horribly.
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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
The thing you're taking offense to is something economists already know is true!
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...that's why I said it... because it's... true?
Either way, that is the only reason economics isn't able to accurately predict the economy, and the only reason things like that happen is because people don't understand how to read it. Weather is much simpler to understand. But just because you don't understand it doesn't mean you can claim it's inaccurate. That's like combining arrogance and ignorance. It's arrgnorance.
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It doesn't matter who we elect, it doesn't matter what they've done or who they've done, what is important is what they actually do. Too many politicians are politicians - they like to talk about useless issues and keep people in the dark about the real issue: money. I will always care more about what the government tells me I have to spend my money on, opposed to some unborn assassination. Freedom is the right to chose, on everything.
Last edited by Raharu Haruha; 05-09-2008 at 07:26 AM.
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