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Their wordsI think it is functionally a response to financial nihilism, where people stop believing that the underlying economy is working for them and turn to gambling or some other seemingly quick fix instead to try and find stability.
Their wordsThe optimization economy can't deliver control, because the desperation is the market condition, and the pursuit of control through optimization is itself a loss of control.
Their wordsThe reason we can't solve our problems is not lack of tools or information - it's that the dominant method (add, optimize, measure) is the wrong method for the problem (figure out what's poisoning you.)
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