- breaking a window for no reason costs money, so it's economically bad
- but actually it generates labour and might be economically good?
- no, that's a fallacy, you've made the room unusable and reduced its economic worth + wasted labour on a useless repair task instead of improving the system.
The rest of the article says that it might not be a fallacy if you break a significant part of the system and not just a window.
Disclaimer: I don't fully understand the rest of the propositions in the article.
- breaking a window for no reason costs money, so it's economically bad
- but actually it generates labour and might be economically good?
- no, that's a fallacy, you've made the room unusable and reduced its economic worth + wasted labour on a useless repair task instead of improving the system.
The rest of the article says that it might not be a fallacy if you break a significant part of the system and not just a window.
Disclaimer: I don't fully understand the rest of the propositions in the article.