The justification, in the capitalist system, for downturns is precisely that it forces overpaid and underproductive parts of the political economy - and these days, the most obviously underproductive and overpaid part of the political economy is the management class - to take a haircut. If this haircut fails to materialise, then capitalism isn't working as advertised.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
