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by thrown_22 1330 days ago
Economics is a thin veneer we paint over thermodynamics because we haven't figured out how to drink oil and eat uranium yet. That high ranking economists can complete gloss over facts like that today is as scandalous as medieval chroniclers who talk about god punishing them for their wickedness with plague and famine without mentioning the sun was blocked out by a volcano for a decade.
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> god punishing them for their wickedness with plague and famine without mentioning the sun was blocked out by a volcano for a decade.

You might be glossing over the fact that perhaps god did the punishing by way of volcano eruption. Just like how god was upset about what the dinosaurs did (the blasphemy of those guys!!) by punishing them with an asteroid.