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GliderGuider

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7. "Rule #1 - Don't ever make predictions over such a short term."

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 04:19 PM

Jan 2015

Following that rule would obviate 99% of all human activity, wouldn't it?

My comment this time was not couched in Malthusian terms, but rather comes from the behaviour of complex adaptive systems shot through with cybernetic feedbacks. Your interpretation of the situation is strongly reductionist, and doesn't take into account the interconnections between all aspects of a global economy.

Yes, I suggest that we might be concerned about the "economic impact of government employees in Venezuela losing their jobs." Not for its direct effect on your gasoline prices, but for what it implies about sea changes already underway in our tightly coupled global economy.

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Oh no... you haven't learned that lesson yet? FBaggins Jan 2015 #6

"Rule #1 - Don't ever make predictions over such a short term." GliderGuider Jan 2015 #7

I gave you an extra three months FBaggins Jul 2015 #8

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You're actually eager for things to fall apart? FBaggins Jul 2015 #10

Yep. GliderGuider Jul 2015 #11

Not wishing to butt in but I'm certainly eager for things to fall apart ... Nihil Jul 2015 #12

Ah... but GG's notion of "fall apart" involves billions dying FBaggins Jul 2015 #13

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