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A reduction in people in the economy is good for some subsegments but for the economy as a whole, no

Think about the networks effects of an economy. An economy of one person has a size of zero units. An economy of two people has a size of one unit, an economy of n people has a max size of n^2 units, or more really nlogn, when you take into account the Gaussian distribution of value between each node of the network.



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