I think you are doing a grave disservice to both Eric and Jerome to class them as shills for Austerianism.

Where Eric, Jerome, I, and various others disagree with you, Jake, and various others (I will not do you the disservice of bracketing you with Thomas the cornucopian sf fan) is that we identify a finite-planet resource problem which precedes (and, arguably, triggers) the financial crisis, and is a graver problem in the long run.

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