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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      A temporary wave of mass death (especially if they're largely people who would soon have died anyway) could well be easier to recover from.

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    2. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      And as I've pointed out: just as both forks in our path lead to economic ruin, both lead to mass illness and death.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      And there is diminishing marginal disutility—in terms of economic impact—on these deaths. That is to say...

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      Right, it’s MORE disruptive. That’s literally how diminishing marginal utility works. Each inch improved matters less, each inch backslid matters more. If ten thousand people die unexpectedly, moreover, there are discontinuities. Like “we run out of morgue space”

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and

      Henry Fitzgerald Retweeted Henry Fitzgerald

      I've addressed both those points elsewhere. On the first:https://twitter.com/HenryTarquin/status/1256010077250523138 …

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      Henry Fitzgerald @HenryTarquin
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RayTski and 3 others
      There IS such a thing as diminishing marginal disutility. The first lash of the whip contributes more pain than the tenth, etc.
      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @lawnerdbarak and

      On the second: yes, there are discontinuities. But the same applies in both directions...

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    8. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      What on earth does “in both directions” mean? When does the social disutility of death abruptly discontinuously slacken when more people die? “The entire family was wiped out so no eyes remain open to weep for those which have closed”?

      2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    9. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and

      There are discontinuities that interrupt smooth curves whether we're talking about diminishing utility or diminishing disutility

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @lawnerdbarak and

      I'm pretty sure what Henry means here without saying it is he's confident the virus will only take people he considers useless to the economy and no actual productive workers will be affected until it hits some threshold like 5%

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and

      He is obviously wrong about this, but I'd rather not talk about that, I'd rather talk about how fucking evil the attitude of "Once we realize all the Grandmas are gonna die we'll just get used to it" is

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and

          And how slimy it is to hide this sentiment behind academic language like "diminishing marginal disutility"

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        1. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 30 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and

          You’re correct, but after interdisciplinary studies at Wharton in grad school I take a peculiar interest in folks using MBAish jargon to disguise a complete noncomprehension of the connection between the words they say and the fucking world

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