And The Big Bang Theory is a popular American sitcom. The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
Here's an idea for a novel: an all-out war breaks out among millenial factions when they realise that there's too many of them and only 144 thousand should remain alive when the rapture happens, say, a year hence. The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.