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We've been saying it for years. We've been saying it about health, about the environment, about human rights. The economy doesn't exist without people, without society. Choose the economy over people you lose everything. And https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1287396137536835584
"the economy" as some single, exogenous, definable thing doesn't exist. There are lots of elements to "the economy," and usually when it's talked/written about as "the economy" what it means is: the industries and segments that rich people care about.
The lesson in communism's collapse was not "capitalism wins, economy über alles!" It was: don't sacrifice people for your economic ideology.
I am so tired of seeing this false dichotomy of "the economy vs _____" which almost never makes any sense from a policy perspective. It is never, ever "the economy vs health" because without healthy people you have no economy. Never "the economy vs environment" because same.
