I am deeply convinced economists fulfill the same function in our society that priests did in earlier ages - they flatter and influence the powerful, and avert people's attention from obvious injustices by packaging their hardship into some grander narrative.
Re:What is money, anyway?
by Biologist123 on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:13PM
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I’m an economist, this is well observed and eloquently stated.
1) Have you ever met a good economist?
2) Is it possible you think he is a poor economist because he deeply understood it from the outside and you are still too "in it" to see? That is not a criticism, it is a question.