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Re:Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” by vacri on Sunday July 05, 2015 @09:13PM (#9836026)
> Game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.

You don't need game theory of this, you just need history. Game theory is the hammer that thinks every problem is a nail.

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Re:Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” by fwn on Monday July 06, 2015 @04:52AM (#9837699)
Just that history, other than logic, won't help people to solve problems.

At the end of the day, every historic fact ruthlessly stretched into some assumed future is a risk for the people relying on unjustified assumptions.

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