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I'm a fan of the Capitalist Realist Shopping Cart Theory, myself.
something something glaziers fallacy.
Obviously this is a joke, but if it even sounded remotely plausible to anyone reading fix yourself.
TIL a new fallacy. I was joking just for the record, I called it "capitalist realist" specifically to try and indicate that it's the kind of thing you might believe only if you were extremely economics brained.
yeah I figured you were, but it seemed like some people were actually engaging with it. As if make-work somehow made the line go up.
There's a fun joke:
2 economists are out walking. The first economist sees a pile of dog shit and says to the other, "I'll pay you $50 to eat that dog shit." So he does and gets paid $50. Later on, the second economist sees a pile of dog shit and says to the first, "I'll pay you $50 to eat that pile of dog shit." So he does and gets paid $50.
The first economist says, "I can't help but feel we just ate dog shit for nothing." "Nonsense," says the second economist, "We just contributed $100 to the economy."
Of course actual economists aren't this terrible, but the popular perception of economics/monetary theory is about this braindead.