[dmos62]

Something to consider is that dying of pneumonia and dying indirectly of economic hardship are very different experiences. At some point we have to ask ourselves the awkward question of how many pneumonia deaths equal how many hardship deaths.

Another point could be that there are countermeasures to recession-related human suffering as well. Economy is obviously fragile, but maybe we could orient towards becoming more resilient to its inevitable crashes, instead of going to austere ends to not disturb it?