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crgwbr
on Feb 7, 2019
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Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Pai...
From a purely theoretical standpoint, I’m terribly curious what
would
happen if we incentivized spending like that. I’m sure it’d be terrible in the long run, but it’d also have definite macroeconomic stimulus effects.
angus-prune
on Feb 7, 2019
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There is a short scifi story from the 50s called the Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl which deals with this in a very silly way.
It's available through archive.org
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_195...
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