The USSR Leads the World in Steel Production

... and other ways Lies Don't Work, otherwise known as "it's really not a good idea to silence the feedback signal," from Sarah Hoyt:
Well, now I think about it, most feedback is annoying.
Economics is full of it — as are other economic systems — and humans find it so annoying they have devised various means of shutting it down, and then become puzzled and do crazy stuff when the system goes out of control.
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2 comments:

  1. Assistant Village Idiot5:55 PM

    I recall a cartoon parody of the USSR around 1971, with a picture of a donkey. "His name is Tractor. The Soviet Union has more tractors than any country in the world."

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  2. Gringo2:44 PM

    The joke in the '80s was that the Soviet Union produced the world's biggest microchips.

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