[DESCRIPTION] High-frequency traders selling stock in the recent hottest start-up company has triggered a flash crash. Markets recover from these quickly in a normal situation. However, automated trading systems all over @@NATION@@ started buying and selling stock haphazardly as a response, unimpeded by circuit breakers and other countermeasures. This resulted in a lasting economic depression.
[VALIDITY] may not have "No Internet" and "No Computers" (and "AI Planning"?)
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#1
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"I can't believe this!" yells @@RANDOMNAME@@ while waving around a half-completed form for unemployment benefits. "I lost my job, and so did about half my neighborhood! All because automated trading created a recession! Earning a few extra @@CURRENCY@@ is more important than people's livelihoods, apparently. Get rid of these computer stock brokers, and let human reason prevail once again!"
[EFFECT] The economy never truly recovers as traders are always a few seconds too slow.
#2
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"The system is always right! Maybe we just haven't pushed this far enough yet," says Minister of Automated Finance @@RANDOMNAME@@. "What if the entire economy was automated? It would be able to balance the stock market with the rest of society. Help programmers get degrees in finance, and make financial experts enroll in programming classes! Integrate the census into this system! It'll revolutionize the economy!"
[EFFECT] the HAL-conomy decided that the Minister of Automated Finance now works as a truck driver.