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This is a much weaker claim than the broken window fallacy, though. The parent comment addresses something that is left unsaid in the broken window fallacy — that even if it isn't objectively better for the money to go to a window-maker, it might not be worse either. It's possible that the chain of events is ultimately neutral for the system as a whole.


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