Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (751339)	11/5/2013 5:45:42 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) of 1576160

No economist has ever answered that problem IMHO. There are tons of human activities which could be cast as breaking windows, yet they also contribute economic to activity. Take sports. Fundamentally is there any difference between chasing a ball around and breaking windows? We could sell tickets to watch windows being broken. We could celebrate champion window breakers. You could buy memorabilia of our favorite window breaking team. Its a mistake to think that one can simply declare what is and what is not contributing to the economy. Its pretty clear that some activity has net greater positive impact on the economy than other activities, but breaking windows certainly can be positive as well. Detail matters, and accounting for all the details is not easy, especially when much of economics is really psychology. If people get warm and fuzzy feelings from breaking windows its no different than the warm and fuzzy feelings which motivate them to any other economic activity. If you go a step past that the warm and fuzzy part and the motivation don't matter either, its simply whether they engage in the activities.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next