• Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If you’d explained things more articulately to begin with it would have saved you a lot of time!

    Ok, you’re not dismissing cause and effect as a whole (i.e. You believe if I pushed a domino over and it fell, I caused it to fall) but don’t believe cause and effect necessarily applies when the effect is the result of a transaction. There are often circumstances where multiple causes result in an effect. e.g. I hadn’t been sleeping well, hadn’t been eating properly and caught a cold, with the effect of failing an exam.

    • rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      5 hours ago

      I really am doubting cause-effect here. I think it’s one of those useful dumbed-down cartoons we use to get from A to B and to satisfy our need for a coherent narrative.

      But more specifically, yes, the money associations. Shakiness compounded.