Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
Economics is Philosophy.

Pick up any real science and see the difference.
Back to this then?

Just because controlled experimentation is easier in chemistry than in economics doesn't give chemistry science status and economics not-science status.

Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
Nothing happens because it's impossible. I remember some dude said that Europe would never go to war because they were all making too much money - smash cut - WW1 - WW2.
People say all sorts of stuff. His claim was not a reasonable claim purely on the premise. To borrow his phrasing, people actually weren't making that much money.

No, you're just so deep in one single avenue of human philosophical study that you can't see the wood for the trees - is my point.
I spend a decent deal of my reading time on what you say I do not.

An accident that happens every time. See US, Hong Kong, Singapore.
Now that we have that settled, no reason to understand it. Let's just stick to determinism.