Financial Times' 404 Page not Found

78 pointsposted a day ago
by sans_souse

13 Comments

Epa095

a day ago

I wonder why they chose this description for Pareto inefficiency:

  There exists another page that will make everyone better off without making anyone worse off.
Instead of the correct

  There exists another page that will make someone better off without making anyone worse off.
Makes me wonder if all the descriptions I know less about are all subtly wrong on purpose.

santiagobasulto

15 hours ago

I think this is just a tongue in cheek description, implying that "nobody needs this page and the `other one` makes everybody happy".

eviks

a day ago

Nice catch and a nice reminder of the quality control fails with broken feedback mechanisms, a common state of affairs! (what, you think they "asked some leading economists."?)

eviks

a day ago

Dislike that textual noise filling the blanks since empty space is the best indicator of nothing. Also happens with various search engines slapping full-page animations visually tricking you into thinking you've got the fish

This should just be a single phrase

themadturk

a day ago

This took me back nearly fifty years to my Econ classes, and I have been re-traumatized.

laurensr

a day ago

Their request IDs seem to be chronological when sorted alphabetically.

sans_souse

a day ago

All bases covered but only one of these is "correct"

>Game theory info By not viewing this page you help everyone else get better pages.

esalman

a day ago

I'd blame it on liquidity trap. Technology team decided to keep money instead of using it to fix the issue.

esalman

a day ago

This was a nice refresh of my economies classes.

mint5

21 hours ago

The socialism one seems to be in bad faith, like not even trying to be in line with how socialism would explain it analogously to the others.

tosti

10 hours ago

...It's just a generic bland error page?

peter-m80

14 hours ago

They dont understand socialism or lie on purpose