What if I have a fish pond with gold fish swimming in it? Are the fish lawn ornaments?
What if I get tired of the birds eating the gold fish and put ceramic fish under the water? Are they lawn ornaments?
What if I drain the pond but leave the ceramic goldfish. Are they lawn ornaments?
What if I skip the pond altogether and have ceramic fish in my garden? Are these lawn ornaments?
Whew, this sounds like an exercise for Philosophy 101.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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