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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by DangitBobby on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:51AM (#20774597)
This take feels like an incarnation of the broken window fallacy to me.
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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by rgoulter on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:01AM (#20774639)
"Broken Window Fallacy" is something like "Breaking Windows is actually good for the economy, because money is spent on repairing windows when it otherwise wouldn't be". (The 'fallacy' is not considering the wider negative impacts).

Sure. "if the negative impact of selling healing crystals outweighs the positive impact of donating to mental health organisations, then it's bad" makes sense to me.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by Scarblac on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:51AM (#20775065)
No, the fallacy is that money being spent is good for the economy by itself. It's a neutral action.

Creation of value is good, and breaking a window just to replace it doesn't.

GDP counts money being spent, of course.

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