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And as such, are overwhelmingly to blame for the current situation in the first place.
Why anyone would trust their numbers, especially those that say "actually, we didn't fuck up, and you're just imagining it", is a mystery.
Because even small deviations of the official inflation or growth rates would become obvious over the long run, considering they are exponential. They would also show up in things like the exchange rate and interest rates. People who doubt the official statistics never sanity check themselves and consider what the world would look like if their skepticism was correct.
Yeah, that happened. It's incredibly obvious, many people say it's incredibly obvious, and the experts just insist that's wrong anyway. People that say that they have personally experienced much sharper increases in prices than the official figures capture in the Covid Helicopter Money era are told that they just have to check the official figures to see that they're wrong. If you say it should be obvious if they're cooking the books, other people say that it is obvious, and you reply that this isn't what the books say, we're at an impasse.
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Over the long run. They can hide the ball until someone they don't like can take the blame for it.
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This is not only a non-falsifiable claim to dispute claims of skepticism with no limiting factors (it applies to all disputes over government claims if you do/cann not calculate alternatives), but it rests on the foundation being actualized- that the deviations between the official inflation or growth rate and reality is what is being claimed to be increasingly obvious by appearance.
Functionally, you've just said 'if they were lying, people would be noticing and saying something' to people who are saying 'I've noticed things that make me think they're lying.'
Seconded and endorsed.
Furthermore, this is happening in the context of multiple instances where in the expert class has been caught lying or otherwise trying to manipulate the information flow for "the public good" regarding a great many things. Off the top of my head; Hilary's Emails, "Russian Collusion", Jeoffrey Epstein, all the shit during the pandemic about the effectiveness vs non-effectiveness of masks, Fauci's blatantly partisan flip-flopping on public gatherings, the lab leak theory, the effectiveness/non-effectiveness of covid vaccines vs natural immunity, Hunter Biden's Laptop, Musk's revelation of Twitter's incestuous relationship with the CIA and DHS, Transwomen in sports... you get the picture.
As I argued in a response to Scott's essay on "bounded distrust", I believe he's got the issue exactly backwards. The moral onus is not on the plebs/normies class to trust the experts. The moral onus is on the experts to be trustworthy, and what we are looking at is mounting evidence that most of them aren't.
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