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Re:The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf] by Mirioron on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:43AM (#19839846)
>Of course, deleveraging also coincides with unemployment and a bunch of other issues that harm the less well off.

I don't think it's so much a coincidence, but rather a direct effect of it. Less investment into businesses usually means fewer jobs.

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Re:The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf] by ericd on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:11PM (#19842699)
Yep, that's exactly what I meant, coincide just means to occur at the same time. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coincide)
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Re:The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf] by Mirioron on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:08PM (#19845195)
I guess I was caught by the word usage. It seemed to me that you were saying that they correlate rather than have a causal relationship. My bad.
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