And consequently, low aggregate demand, which in a never-ending cycle, reinforces the pessimism of the investors, who, fearing low demand, reproduce it by not investing -- exactly like Oedipus' father, who, terrified by the prophecy of the oracle that his son would grow up to kill him, unwittingly engineered the conditions that ensured that Oedipus, his son, would kill him.
I stoga, niska agregatna potražnja, koja u beskonačnom ciklusu, učvršćuje pesimizam investitora koji je, bojeći se slabe potražnje, reproduciraju ne investirajući -- upravo kao Edipov otac koji je, užasnut proročanstvom da će mu sin odrasti i ubiti ga, nesvjesno isplanirao okolnosti koje su osigurale da ga Edip, njegov sin, ubije.