The common practice of treating the “economy” like a god. The way economics is talked about makes it seem like some Lovecraftan elder god whose priest of economists must sate with Uber drivers. With the economy being the most important thing ever. Which it isn’t I don’t think GDP is very useful if we are in a Mad Max styles hellscape because of climate change. We can’t raise wages or the economy will suffer. Because it’s a separate being but raising the prices of essentials is fine. if we mandate treating all workers decent with proper wages the economy would suffer. we need to outsource to sweatshops its economics Like the economy isn’t some separate being it’s people. This was a South Park Episode about this.