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Re:The 4 AM Army by ubernostrum on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @09:05AM (#5977501)
Economics is subject to the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Re:The 4 AM Army by treerock on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @09:52AM (#5977733)
Okay, call me dumb, but I don't get it. I looked up wikipedia, and I still don't get it. What, in economics, is analogous to fermions and quantum state?
Re:The 4 AM Army by ubernostrum on Thursday July 04, 2013 @04:50AM (#5989763)
Assertion: In any modern economical system, capacity exists to produce small houses for "everyone who wishes one".

Disproof: For certain possible values of "everyone", the Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents the simultaneous existence of a sufficient number of distinct small houses.

Re:The 4 AM Army by wavefunction on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:40PM (#5979026)
This is only true because classical economics are predicated on scarcity, much of which is artificial and shared inequally and inequitably.
Re:The 4 AM Army by bennyg on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:08AM (#5977857)
Clint Eastwood's Pauli Exclusion Principle:

This energy state ain't big enough for the both of us.

Re:The 4 AM Army by homeomorphic on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:01AM (#5977801)
Tell me, what in economics plays the role of identical particles?
Re:The 4 AM Army by randallsquared on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:09AM (#5977862)
Relative economic position of actors? Not sure if that's what ubernostrum was referring to.
Re:The 4 AM Army by VLM on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:39AM (#5978057)
Read grimtrigger's story in the HN comments. You'll get the idea rather quickly.