Obviously my model was more nuanced by the time I took micro/macroeconomics, but it was still sort of a bizarre experience to see a real-world system presented with no "moral facts" whatsoever. It felt very abrupt & unexpected.
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As a child, my model of "the economy" was basically just a moral war, with some good people (with small-ish companies) making good jobs exist & some bad people running big companies & making bad jobs exist. For a while I understood "being a good person" to mean "making good jobs"
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I can sorta hold both layers now — neutral cause-and-effect systems exist, but collections of people & some individuals can move various morally relevant needles. Over time, those needles seem increasingly tiny & sticky, but the systems also seem less predictable than I'd expect
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I'm just noticing my confusion. Hard to hash this out with most people, since they tend to think one layer or the other is essentially irrelevant, or somehow see the whole system as simultaneously utterly predictable & completely governed by moral actors, which, like, whaaaat
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