The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
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