The long run

Send in the clowns to fight for Generation Z
In the short run we’re all good
In the long run we’re all dead —

—Danger Boy, “Closer” (2019)

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.”

— John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)