As the American commentator Matthew Yglesias points out, Europe's major center-left parties at that time recognized that what was being done was not working, but nonetheless failed to offer an alternative. “It was left to other parties with less worthy overall agendas – Hitler, for example – to step in and say that if the rules of the game led to prolonged spells of mass unemployment, then the rules of the game had to be changed.”
悲哀的是，这正是20世纪30年代发生过的事。美国评论家马修·伊格莱西亚斯（Matthew Yglesias）指出，当时欧洲主要中左翼政党意识到采取的政策根本无效，但也没有拿出替代方案。“这让拿下总体日程价值更低的政党——比如希特勒——站出来说，既然游戏规则导致长期大面积失业，那么就应该改变游戏规则。”