Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
Interpretation
The quote critiques the emergence of new monetary theories that lack foundation and clarity.
Terry Pratchett's quote highlights the proliferation of unconventional and dubious monetary theories that sprout without sufficient evidence or rational basis. Comparing them to mushrooms that grow in the dark suggests that these ideas develop secretly and without scrutiny, ultimately pointing to the absurdity and potentially harmful implications of such unexamined perspectives in finance.
In practice
In a finance seminar discussing the validity of new economic theories.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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