“But at what cost” is really another thought-terminating cliche. It had a useful meaning originally, but is now just “Sure x is good, but what if you instead said it was bad?”, and is not a speculation of any value.
feels like it is an appeal to the market as the final arbiter of all things. “oh you think you did something good for people? THE MARKET GOD WILL PUNISH YOU IN AS YET UNACCOUNTED FOR WAYS.”
“But at what cost” is really another thought-terminating cliche. It had a useful meaning originally, but is now just “Sure x is good, but what if you instead said it was bad?”, and is not a speculation of any value.
feels like it is an appeal to the market as the final arbiter of all things. “oh you think you did something good for people? THE MARKET GOD WILL PUNISH YOU IN AS YET UNACCOUNTED FOR WAYS.”
“Karma is real and I fear its invisible hand”