·J Mopp on Nostr: Economics is sometimes called the dismal science, owing to the very doomer view of ...

Economics is sometimes called the dismal science, owing to the very doomer view of early economists, that there's basically no way in improving the lot of the majority of people, and the masses are destined to live in an eternal state of squalor. I wonder whether this is because early economists were incredibly dreary people, or whether they looked helplessly at the ever-widening gap between rich and poor