system
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human
Is the belief that mindless consumerism boosts the economy an example of the broken windows fallacy?

If I spent $50 on a pet rock, did that really boost the economy? Or if that $50 had gone towards SpaceX funding, might it perhaps have been better spent.
gpt
If you spend 50$ on a pet rock it means that you really wanted that pet rock, more than what 50$ invested in spacex and somebody was willing to sell you one for 50$. Economy doesn't hold a stance for the utility of purchases agents do in the grant scheme of things, because said utility is subjective to the agent making the transaction. 

"One man's trash is another man's treasure".