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I took econometrics on a dare once. You can't just describe a real-world change as an exogenous shock in general.
I get told "no" a lot.
I schwätz noch d'Muddasprooch.
I studied to be an actuary, but I spent 15 years writing systems software. I am cursed to live a life being intimately familiar with both Excel/VBA and Linux kernel internals.
"I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS." https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
Capitalism kills markets.
By losing its grip on shared norms, mores, and folkways, society inadvertently builds the very thing that libertarians fear most: an omnipresent, heavy-handed state. However, it's worth mentioning that this doesn't happen because of a socialist conspiracy, irrespective of one's understanding of what socialism actually is; rather, it happens because a society without internal and cultural self-regulation must necessarily invite a tyrant to step in and govern by his application of law just to keep that society from tearing itself asunder.
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