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Why God Doesn't Exist

    Summary

    Assuming the economist concedes that the artificial economy will suffer a crash, he argues finally that it
    will not necessarily lead to the extinction of the human race. First, there are things the government can do.
    We need only look at the 1930s to see how the State got the country working again with gargantuan state-
    run programs. Perhaps the government just needs to increase immigration or offer women economic
    incentives to have children again. But even if the government cannot get us out of the jam, Man is a very
    resourceful species. The 'fittest' will survive and restart the thing over again. It's just back to Adam and
    Eve.

    I have finally come around to accepting that mainstream businessmen and economists are feeble-minded
    when it comes to ecology. They have been conditioned so much to market mechanisms in school and in
    the ‘real’ world out there that they can’t relate to what I am saying. I know this because I’ve had long and
    arduous chats with some individuals from the establishment. They counter with the most ridiculous
    solutions, stuff that would make Buster Keaton laugh. I can’t really take them seriously. It’s like talking to
    babies. Some have suggested to me that the government can put people back to work through Keynesian
    mechanisms like Roosevelt and Hitler did in the 30s. Others tell me that women will produce like rabbits
    again after a collapse or that we won’t even meet the bleak scenario I describe in the first place. Yet others
    say that Man will resort to bartering and start the whole process all over like we did when civilization was
    in its infancy. And still others tell me that they’ll plant tomatoes in their flowerpots. You won’t believe the
    stupid replies I have collected. I will address a few of these rejoinders merely to expose just how ignorant
    businessmen and economists really are about their own subject of expertise.

    Here I take pains to debunk the typical loopholes to extinction that the economists come up with.
Rejoinders:
the experts
voice their
objections to
the theory

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