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It's a good question. But still...

> Two economists are walking down the street. One of them says “Look, there’s a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk!” The other economist says “No there’s not. If there was, someone would have picked it up already.”



If it's a relatively busy sidewalk and you know the object has been there for several hours, that gets to be a pretty good argument.


In this case, the economics of solar has been changing rapidly in recent years, so the caveat won't apply. Worst case, you can bend over and get a closer look.


Yeah, presumably the Software Engineer laughs at the two moronic "experts" and picks up the religious literature or strip club ad masquerading as cash.


Yeah, valid point.




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