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Why Safer Streets Keep Losing to Fire Trucks (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Emergent properties, network effect, a bunch of other phenomena I can't remember the names of right now...

Macro is very often different from the mere aggregation of micro. That's why macroeconomics isn't the same as microeconomics and it's stupid to try to run a country like a business, for example.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well, when it comes to politics, I think things are just aggregations of individual people and their power. It's more convenient to THINK in terms of macro, the same way that it's easier to drag a file to the trashbin on the desktop than it is to find the index table on the drive and zero out the entry....

    Like I think about how hard it is to increase housing. "The macro" level, though, is really just a lot of individual property owners pursuing their narrow financial interest in keeping property values high by keeping demmand high.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Well, when it comes to politics, I think things are just aggregations of individual people and their power.

    Consider the difference between some number of individuals having similar ideology but acting alone, vs. a political party/union/activist organization.

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