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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by louloulou on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:24PM (#31761149)
Better to just create trillions out of nothing and use them to buy financial assets, now that's a good use of money!

(https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/app/html/index.en.h...)

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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by bluGill on Thursday June 16, 2022 @01:43PM (#31768842)
false dichotomy.

Just because you can name some other bad use of money that we do doesn't make some other one good.

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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by louloulou on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:52PM (#31773245)
You're talking about opportunity costs - it's not a false dichotomy at all. Spending trillions on financial assets mean they are not spent on other things.
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