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by adra 1263 days ago
Your response is unquestionally a bad one. If someone is desperate and on the edge during economic good times, then they're going to fall off the chart when the economy falls over. Don't blame the economy. It isn't the "economy's" job to keep a population fed and content, this is for socialized economic policies to backstop, not some delusion that good times will always be good times any any policy that adjusts against bubbles and inflation are anti-poor.
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Look, I'm not advocating an attempt to keep the economy perpetually good.

The fact is that we have the world in a terrible economic situation. We have an editorial baffled at the state of the things. And we also have an user saying that in their understanding a depression on the top of the current situation would be "healthy part of a normal economic ebb and flow" and "not objectively bad".

I tried to tell the user in question that a recession right now might not be a problem for people in a good financial condition, but for sure it's an object of concern for the majority of the population who can't pay the bills and the people in charge who will have to deal with the revolt of such population.