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She switches to the backstroke after ten laps. Ten more and she rolls over again; breaststroke. She has waterproof headphones and an audiobook going.
pelape and sahde
thesignalandthenoise
I thought maybe he'd be able to get a grant for the experimental assistive device or there'd be a way to write it off as a healthcare expense but Ohan says you're paying for it?
miscaste
Oh, yeah. It was a bit too expensive for a grant and I'm not sure healthcare would count it as an assistive device.
thesignalandthenoise
I guess if you frame it as an investment you can probably get some return from it.
thesignalandthenoise
I really like that about the government, the sometimes listening to economists.
thesignalandthenoise
I imagine people who never listen to economists just fuck things up enough to be voted out or if necessary violently overthrown.
miscaste
There's a limit to how far that can go, I'm sure we're not at the optimal listening-to-economists spot and yet there don't seem to be super successful politicians getting things done by listening to more economists.
thesignalandthenoise
It isn't necessarily the case but seems plausible to me that we're at a point where all the low hanging economist fruit has been picked. Like, presumably econ greens are crackpots at some rate, and at a certain level of sophistication of an idea it's hard to tell, and also there are some disagreements in the field at sufficient levels of granularity, and then you can't listen to all of the economists all of the time, you have to filter the ideas somehow.
miscaste
I suppose "don't actually listen to anything that isn't an overwhelming consensus and also relatively easy and non-politicised" is a filter.
thesignalandthenoise
Is there something specific that 70% of economists agree on that you want implemented?