And as I've pointed out: just as both forks in our path lead to economic ruin, both lead to mass illness and death.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
And there is diminishing marginal disutility—in terms of economic impact—on these deaths. That is to say...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
The economic impact of 10,000 deaths will not be anything like twice as bad as the economic impact of 5,000.
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Did you just learn about the term "diminishing marginal utility" and think it's some kind of universal law of economics that applies to everything man Fucking A There can be both diminishing AND INCREASING marginal utilities (or disutilities)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Just like there are both economies and diseconomies of scale You don't know which one it is until you actually look at the situation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
You didn't even think this through, disutility means going in the opposite direction of utility For something that has a generally diminishing marginal utility, taking it AWAY has generally INCREASING marginal DISutility
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
I.e. if going from having $0 to $50k changes your life more than going from $50k to $100k, then once you do have $100k, taking away the first $50k hurts you less than taking away the second $50k Because it's the same thing, it's the same graph going in the opposite direction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Fucking Twitter autodidacts Jesus Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RayTski and
There IS such a thing as diminishing marginal disutility. The first lash of the whip contributes more pain than the tenth, etc.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
Whether this is true of deaths is debatable, but if we're talking vis-à-vis the economy it strikes be as highly likely.
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YES BECAUSE YOU'RE AN IDIOT THE ECONOMY IS *MADE OF HUMAN BEINGS*, WHEN YOU TAKE THOSE HUMAN BEINGS AWAY, THERE IS LESS OF AN ECONOMY
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
The belief among the worst of the "reopening" activists that the only at-risk population is those old retired useless eaters is morally reprehensible, literal Nazism, but more than that it's NOT EVEN TRUE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Do you know who's going to be included in that death toll if it spikes and spikes quickly? The doctors and nurses themselves, who, regardless of their age or previous health status, absorb a viral load many times higher than the average exposure
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