Show me your data.
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My data is the knowledge that governments want to ensure one thing. Their own survival. And they’ll manipulate anything possible to ensure it. Nothing is off limits. You know this, yet you choose to believe the numbers on the screen. It’s all a charade.
So feelings. Not facts.
So to you believing what govts tell you is a fact? But my use of deductive reasoning from past events is feelings. Interesting.
Be for real though Mike, if the fed ran an Ai simulation that showed complete destruction of the bond market unless they changed numbers A, B and C on a screen. You think they wouldn’t do that?? 😂😂😂.
Well, aside from this question being a straw man, I would say that my default assumption is not that everything the government tells me is a lie, like some people in these conversations. As it pertains to econometric data that government agencies like the BLS put out … do I think that this data is all fake and made-up? No. No I don’t.
The reality is, if the data was really as badly manipulated as you intimate, quants at hedge funds and other private researchers would have figured that out a long time ago, and probably made a big stink about it.
The level of trust required for me to frame my worldview in that fashion is something I simply don’t posses. I’ve watched friends die after being targeted by big pharma as good candidates to get hooked on opioids. I’ve seen families crushed from believing that the currency they were working for would uphold its value. I have no love left for this system and rage clouds my vision. Maybe you’re correct. I simply don’t care.
It’s not always that the numbers are wrong, it’s normally that the framework that they are assessed with is wrong. That’s how you lie with statistics.
Take for instance your unemployment stat from an earlier post - it’s calculated excluding people who “aren’t actively seeking work” and doesn’t have any regard for the quality, quantity, or type of labor that someone is participating in.
If I have 10M who stop looking for jobs, the unemployment number goes down. But that doesn’t reflect anything positive about the state of the world. Similarly, if everyone has a job but it’s state mandated and doesn’t pay enough to feed your family, then unemployment can be 0% but you’re in a gulag. Do you see what I’m saying?
The only numbers on a screen that I believe are numbers that have been found and validated and are transparent and fully auditable!
EVERY other number is subject to manipulation or mismanagement to enrich, impoverish, control or lie.
Does that mean every other number is fake? No. Does that mean every other number should be met with EXTREME skepticism? Yes.
Believing a number on a screen that has no way of being truly audited and verified is nonsense. Describing it as FACT is naive.
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Everyone is pretending they understand but they dont. They cant. They have slices and glimpses and the rest is filled in by wishful thinking, projection and other peoples thoughts. Its not anyones fault. This is what and how we were all taught. The incentives for rapacity are baked in the cake. Just means we cant necassarily trst anyone, even our own future selves. Gotta verify everything that we care about.
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