Live-streamed on February 8, 2024Mark Paul, assistant professor of economics at Rutgers University, discusses his recent book The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming...
  • Yer Ma
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    7 months ago

    You don’t get to be the richest country by spending money on your people

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      And the things we do get are because they are productive, and democracies run on productivity. “They want everyone productive, so everyone gets highways”. Every other penny spent not on our productivity is a waste to them.

  • intensely_human
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    7 months ago

    The government cracks down on new housing construction hard for a few decades, and the supply doesn’t keep pace with populations growth.