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Just so we don't risk ties.

Either way, we need the tax or the mines. Neither is not acceptable.

Economist can have a general picture, but it is also essential to have a wide representation from people who actually operate on the fields.
An economist may say that football needs to be restarted, but he probably knows nothing about football and what it actually needs to function at the level needed. The head of the NFL however does.

Same for every industry, really. The economist can give a general direction, but for any actionable decision you need somebody who knows how the specific field works and what it needs to operate. The number of economists is probably smaller than it should be, but having representatives from pretty much every industry is essential, because you will need those competences.


I hope somebody with better mind for words and knowledge of the situation can explain better, but I'll try an analogy:

Say you are the president of a group of people (I don't know, the local book club maybe).
The group is falling apart, so you hire somebody to help build bonds within the group. That is the "economist".
The economist may propose a monthly lunch. That is good. It works. However, to actually implement that advice, you need to poll the members of the book club to ask their dietary needs and preferences, otherwise you end up with a lunch nobody eats and you are worse off than before. This is where industry representatives come in.

It should be noted that a feast costs economy, and it was said that the tax we just abolished is the only reason we had revenue.

Mind you, we just took the throne on a not quite stable situation and happiness isn't high, so we probably don't have a choice.

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But we must hope dwarves find something valuable while we can still afford to make a mine.

If somebody doesn't take medication as a general rule, something related to comfort like an headache probably shouldn't be the go to example (assuming it isn't proper migraines)
It would be better to give examples such an infection, or a bad flu or something serious enough to actually require medicines.

Well, Elon Musk at least is distributing 1200+ ventilors, with Tesla possibly starting to produce them too partnering with Medtronic. (not sure about the price of the produced ones, if they manage to)

By the way, local administrators and researchers in the Bergamo area are warning that deaths may be vastly undereported.
Basically, they checked graphs for the number of deaths and overlaid the coronavirus reported deaths. Coronavirus was already a big spike over the baseline... but exactly on top of it, total deaths reached peaks of 4-10 times (depending on location) more than reported coronavirus deaths. How many of those are virus related and how many healthcare collapse related is anyone's guess, but that is a lot of extra deaths.

The political class is perhaps the most at risk group.

They all have frequent interactions with lots of strangers from all across the nation and world, and the average age is high.