The ironic bit about this clip from The Fifth Element? It’s not even good economics, which is something that you’d expect to get from somebody who has made a lot of money.
This is, of course, the broken window fallacy. For those unfamiliar, well, let’s check in with Frederic Bastiat. Translation of his parable via Wikipedia:
Continue reading Roomba, Bastiat, & Zorg: musings on economics by somebody who shouldn’t.