"In the same way that everyone has to deal with the immediate weather when going to work, so every elite decision-maker has to deal with immediate social problems, with the “long term” relegated to the horizon. “Everyone's a Keynesian in the foxhole,” the great bourgeois economist Robert Lucas said. Yes, “In the long term, we are all dead,” as Keynes said, but the problem is that the “long term” might be tomorrow since we might all be dead, if tomorrow a strong enough gust tumbles the capitalist house of cards."