[oblio]

The issue with this is that there's a lot of "culling" happening during these recessions. And people aren't trees.

[umvi]

Right but we aren't incinerating people during the culling. Very few (if any) people actually die compared to trees in a forest fire.

[oblio]

During recessions there's higher rates of suicides, divorces, depressions.

People don't have to die for their lives to be miserable.

(And people on HN don't have to be so literal or pedantic, especially when analogies are used...)