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by squidbeak 2 hours ago
> Considering how necessary economies are and how economists claim economists are unnecessary to run an economy, I wonder why economists even exist.

Biological processes are also 'necessary', and work just as well without biologists. Do you also wonder why Biologists exist?

Or more broadly, should we give up trying to understand processes and systems if they run without intervention?