The reluctance to acknowledge the need for immediate intervention in a financial crisis is based on a school of economics that fails to account for the irrational exuberance that I have explored elsewhere, and that ignores the aggressive marketing and other realities of digital-age markets examined in Phishing for Phools. But adhering to an approach that overlooks these factors is akin to doing away with fire departments, on the grounds that without them people would be more careful – and so there would then be no fires.
那种不愿承认危机来临时需要当即介入的想法是基于一个无法解释我已经在别处探究过的非理性繁荣，以及忽视了《钓鱼》中所阐述的数码时代市场的强力推广和其它现实的经济学派。但依赖于一种无视这些因素的手段无异于把消防局撤销，寄望于这能令人们更加小心防火，以为这就不会再有火灾了。