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Old 03-02-2019, 03:39 PM   #5253 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Point is, nobody in the 1800s was going to observe a world ending meteor and then alter the outcome.

Scaling back the economy without unduly impacting innovation is very tricky.

It took exactly everything that has transpired in the past to arrive where we are today. If things could have been any different, they would have.
Seems like outcomes could have been infinite.They would be a consequence of the sum total whatever behaviors existed in that past.
We wouldn't know otherwise though,as things would always be what they were,based upon whatever options were exercised at the time.
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