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>>Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a hundred dollar bill without picking it up.

I can't help but notice that the joke rests on an impossible premise that they didn't pick it up on first notice.

Whoosh? That's the joke.

They are so convinced in their theories, that a real world discontinuity in them is instead, seen as impossible.

EG, Why would they pick up what clearly (to them) cannot exist?

but to me it requires the economists to be so stupid to not consider the possibility that they might be indeed the first people who observe it after it has been lost..

That's the joke. Ignoring reality, empirical evidence, due to theory.

Ok, Thank you for your patience :)

Wow.... That this had to be explained.

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