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Comment author: solipsist 26 April 2015 04:18:27PM 0 points [-]

With a 1,000 square kilometer industrial complex for the manufacture of slinkys and a million trained botanists.

Comment author: knb 28 April 2015 06:22:38AM 0 points [-]

The article makes it pretty clear they are not describing a mismatch scenario. In a mismatch you have simultaneous shortages and gluts, but the article never talks about shortages of X while there is a surplus of Y, only gluts.

Comment author: Elo 26 April 2015 10:36:53PM *  0 points [-]

Send them to me! slinkys that is! it's time to change the world for the better!

Comment author: Romashka 26 April 2015 04:45:02PM 0 points [-]

Send them to me. Botanists, that is. It's time to change the world for the better.