> Protecting the most vulnerable people and ensuring people don't fall into the trap of poverty is an investment that should occur at the governmental level. There are many such governmental investments that would alleviate serious long-term problems.
The United States spends 38% of GDP “investing in people.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni.... Even if you exclude the much maligned defense spending (where a lot of our science and technology investment goes), that’s $6.5 trillion that goes to investing in people or managing people who invest in people.
I’m amenable to the notion that we should invest more. For example healthcare and guaranteed meals for everyone under age 18.
But the idea that “America sees investment in its own people as wasteful spending” is just false. It’s a statement that’s so disconnected from reality that it makes me question the point that is really being made. Are people really saying spending a third of every dollar on welfare is nothing? Or is it a way to deflect from any efforts to criticize how that money is being used? Because if you keep telling people “America invests almost nothing in its people” that makes folks very defensive about the programs we do spend money on, and willing to overlook mismanagement of those programs.
The United States spends 38% of GDP “investing in people.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni.... Even if you exclude the much maligned defense spending (where a lot of our science and technology investment goes), that’s $6.5 trillion that goes to investing in people or managing people who invest in people.
I’m amenable to the notion that we should invest more. For example healthcare and guaranteed meals for everyone under age 18.
But the idea that “America sees investment in its own people as wasteful spending” is just false. It’s a statement that’s so disconnected from reality that it makes me question the point that is really being made. Are people really saying spending a third of every dollar on welfare is nothing? Or is it a way to deflect from any efforts to criticize how that money is being used? Because if you keep telling people “America invests almost nothing in its people” that makes folks very defensive about the programs we do spend money on, and willing to overlook mismanagement of those programs.