I am going to stop engaging with the comments on this post, at this point. I think any further engagement will tempt me to make the post increasingly worse rather than better, so I’m doing one last ‘can I make this more clear without making it outrageously long or giving up important points’ pass, probably change very little, and then stop. Also, I’d rather get more of the sequence finished while I can, that seems more useful by a lot. Note that the disagreements don’t actually matter to the later parts of the sequence.
Mods, you can reimport now, at this point I’m not going to make more changes unless distinct new things come to light. Also fixed a typo in previous post.
I do thank the people who gave the pushback, because I understand better where they are coming from and why they view the economic model presented as false. It certainly is not the standard one that uses these terms, makes more implicit assumptions slash includes more implicit steps that are more important to its conclusions than I first realized, and most importantly those are implicit things that the standard economic models choose to completely ignore, for understandable complexity-minimizing reasons and because they’re not useful on the margin, so they’re not relevant to the normal reasons one learns and uses those tools.
In the future, if this comes up again as I expect it to, I need to either figure out a better way to use the concepts in these ways in writing, or decide to accept the price. It’s a question for another day.
I am going to stop engaging with the comments on this post, at this point. I think any further engagement will tempt me to make the post increasingly worse rather than better, so I’m doing one last ‘can I make this more clear without making it outrageously long or giving up important points’ pass, probably change very little, and then stop. Also, I’d rather get more of the sequence finished while I can, that seems more useful by a lot. Note that the disagreements don’t actually matter to the later parts of the sequence.
Mods, you can reimport now, at this point I’m not going to make more changes unless distinct new things come to light. Also fixed a typo in previous post.
I do thank the people who gave the pushback, because I understand better where they are coming from and why they view the economic model presented as false. It certainly is not the standard one that uses these terms, makes more implicit assumptions slash includes more implicit steps that are more important to its conclusions than I first realized, and most importantly those are implicit things that the standard economic models choose to completely ignore, for understandable complexity-minimizing reasons and because they’re not useful on the margin, so they’re not relevant to the normal reasons one learns and uses those tools.
In the future, if this comes up again as I expect it to, I need to either figure out a better way to use the concepts in these ways in writing, or decide to accept the price. It’s a question for another day.
(Edited. Thx for letting us know.)