What would be your reaction? No raindrop believes itself responsible for the flood that follows.
Both are experimental questions. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Social Science, especially economics, is collectively at the point where physics was while Newton lived, or where Biology was when Darwin made his first trip on the Beagle. We've found some empirical correlations. We have a few theories that seem internally consistent. Do we have great working models of real economies or real social systems? No. We know more about the weather. No raindrop believes itself responsible for the flood that follows.