“ create a single government agency that provides support to the rest of the government. Might easily lose efficiency, as any other bureaucracy”. As opposed to huge corporations that are known to be the pinnacle of efficiency…
(1) “American economists” only. (2)Also I am sure looking at the political/institutional affiliations of the responders would be interesting. (3) The responders comments show very different reasoning for disagreement. Some focus on stat derivatives, some on model incompatibility and some on more anecdotal evidence. (4) Some answers are bat-shit crazy like “not sure wealth inequality has risen in the US”.
You are right - the language itself can be a bit messy. R’s advantage is the massive amount of packages available. Almost no matter what niche problem you are trying to solve - someone probably made a package for it. And if not all the functionality is there: you can just add.
You know people are lost in the woods when the they use terms like “100% genuine and obvious. Your personal preferences are not universal and people are not downplaying it the need for controlling feeds. They are frustrated that control of feeds are taken from them from paternalistic profit-driven product managers et al.