Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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"

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.

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