I had to look up broken window fallacy 🤙

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Haha exactly!

Imagine you had some money saved for your child’s education, then someone from the government comes and destroys the windows in your store or home, then when you have to spend that savings to repair your life, foregoing the security of your child’s future, and then the political industry proceeds to tell you that your pain and worry is “GoOD FoR thE eCOnoMY cuZ now more people make windows.”

It’s both patronizing and profoundly shallow, stage one thinking that doesn’t even bother exploring the trade offs.

Yeah, that’s super gross