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The fallacy goes:

- breaking a window for no reason costs money, so it's economically bad

- but actually it generates labour and might be economically good?

- no, that's a fallacy, you've made the room unusable and reduced its economic worth + wasted labour on a useless repair task instead of improving the system.

The rest of the article says that it might not be a fallacy if you break a significant part of the system and not just a window.

Disclaimer: I don't fully understand the rest of the propositions in the article.



So it boils down to. Don't break the window, burn the building




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