The more cash you need, the more you want to borrow. In the short term this reduces your need for cash, but after a while it increases it. A vicious cycle.

The same pattern shows up all over the place, where a short-term fix makes the problem worse in the long run. This pattern is an example of a 'system archetype', and we can draw it as a diagram. Different instances of this archetype will give diagrams with different words - but the archetype is the pattern of edges with plus signs, minus signs and delays.

I've been working on the math of this stuff. I'm fascinated by how a general problem that haunts my life - I like to put off solving problems, and wind up making them worse - can be summarized as a simple diagram.

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Soso, die CSU will Heidi Reichinnek also nicht im Kontrollgremium haben?
Wo kämen wir auch hin, wenn da jemand tatsächlich kontrollieren wollte. Am Ende wird noch jemanden auf die Finger geklopft, wenn wieder versehentlich Akten in den Schredder fallen...

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/reichinnek-pkgr-100.html

True.

#signs #protest