by Laura Conaway

Jumping into the buy/don't buy debate, Aaron writes:

I remember a couple days after 9/11 there was this talk going about that the following monday when the markets reopened everyone should go buy something, keep the money flowing in other words. It wasn't until years later that I thought about that idea and concluded that it is totally absurd.

 

The economy is based on people's emotions in other words on irrational human thoughts, really greed and fear. Yet here is this idea of "bypass your emotions, go buy stuff." I seriously think there is nothing anyone can do to change the way our economies work, unless every aspect of them is run by computers without emotions. Things will go up and things will go down and no amount of analytic theory will make anyone understand it any better. Its mob mentality, perhaps that also means no free will. We are all just a part of this huge thing and we can buy or not buy it really doesn't matter in the end. Anyway I still listen to your show and find it entertaining and it helps me understand how we got here.