📚 Today I learned...
About the "Paradox of Thrift" — economist John Maynard Keynes observed that individual rational behaviour can be collectively irrational.
If everyone cuts spending during a recession simultaneously, total demand collapses, businesses fail and unemployment rises — even though each individual was just being sensible.
Sometimes the logical thing for one person is catastrophic when everyone does it at once.
Makes you wonder where else that principle applies 🤔







