Comment by lelanthran

> Supply-shock imply that something was done and it worked, but that the problem solved itself is not as palatable for someone politically motivated like an administration.

Problem solving itself by killing the users is also not palatable because the conclusion is that the users are expendable in pursuit of solving the problem.

Since neither conclusion is going to be politically acceptable, why is your default hypothesis that the paper must be wrong because your political conclusion is better than the paper's political conclusion?