rockerface comments on (in)visible hand

People Twitter

10,466 readers

4,158 active

435 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician

https://www.sotwe.com/
https://twitterviewer.net/Note: Archive.is is no longer recommended because they remove/alter content.

If a tweet (or similar) makes a statement of fact, either mark it as "satire" in the body or provide the original source link backing up the statement (see rule 6)

founded 3 years ago

moderators

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

At least in physics you then learn the approximations and the use cases where your formulas do work

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that it's basically impossible to isolate economic phenomena. You can conduct a gravity experiment in a vacuum tube, but you can't make an economic vacuum tube.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

And yet you can still use the basic formula for gravitational movement to calculate stuff with enough precision for everyday life.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago*

and you know the price of milk when you go to the grocery store. and next week, but you don't know what it's going to be a year from now

and you don't know it's wholesale value, or it's production forecasts on which milk futures are traded. etc.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent