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Any complex topic discussed in the public sphere will not be satisfying. Economics is especially bad since everyone, for some reason, thinks they're an expert in the topic and will argue in favor of the last popular idea they heard from their favorite internet economist.

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Talk about negative interest rates and people are going to look at you as if you are crazy.

I'm not an expert at economics, I think I am merely scraping the surface but everyone else? They aren't even trying to scrape, they just assume that endless growth and positive interest rates are god given.

Like with some areas of medicine, many people are opinionated on economics because they're suspicious they're being exploited and questioning the system seems like a way to push back.

In medicine, though, I have more confidence (overall) that establishment views are scientific.

Medicine and economics have quite a history of blatantly ignoring things that don’t fit with the accepted consensus. I still remember how meditation was viewed as nonsense. The gut flora is another issue where medicine was/is way behind the curve.

Looking at statements about the housing bubble in 2008 or about inflation a few years ago I don’t trust much in the economics profession either. They seem to always be behind the curve.

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