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Housing was another bubble, and those investors got bailed out. “Too big to fail”, I believe, is still the prevailing neoliberal wisdom. This is quite a large bubble and seemingly one of the only bright spots in the US economy.

I give it a 85%+ chance of a bailout when the tech bubble pops.

It’s worth remembering that one of the reasons the electricity in Texas may be cheaper is due to not winterizing the grid and the lack of planning for deep freezes. Anyone else remember the black outs?

Many people love their cars, I love my car too. I hate traffic though, everyone hates traffic. That’s the problem with everyone loving cars.

I love busses, bikes, and trains, so I use those as well.

Productivity in what sense? Education is literally a long term investment. As you stated, a local school district which may mean Pre-K through 12th grade (in the US) means that the children won’t be participating “productively” in the economy for potentially decades.

I cannot even fathom how hard the economy would crash if large swaths of the workforce were illiterate.

It’s important to note the western myth of “ghost cities”. It goes that the cities were built and were never intended to be, and forever will be empty and unpopulated.

It’s hard to imagine in the west just how fast china is urbanizing- and the immense scale that the government is preemptively tackling a housing crisis.

GDP is it a useful measure? Maybe? Maybe not? What is your argument and how does the GDP numbers support it?

Financial surveillance would happen either way. It’s either from your government or to a foreign company, bundled and sold en mass.

This is presented as problematic, but I don’t think it’s a negative thing.

You wouldn’t want a foreign company with billions of dollars in their war chest in charge of your countries payment system.

If you remember the name that would be something I would be interested in!

The country is almost 340 million people.

That’s 340,000,000 individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and geographies.

They wake up every morning and go about their lives. Things like planes need to stay in the air, water needs to be clean, trains need to not derail in the middle of towns, dams need to stay not only structurally sounds but in some cases keep producing electricity.

The USA is the fourth largest country by area in the entire world.

To say that the government is too big and complex and it should be smaller and simpler feels like a drastic oversimplification and incredibly simple thing to say.

The rich undoubtedly have class consciousness. They understand they gain when tax cuts are made and loans are given out.

Then they turn around and propagandize against class consciousness for the rest of us.

Unions need to make bigger a comeback before I can believe that the working class has class consciousness.

First of all none of this is legal- it’s all money that is appropriated.

Secondly, this is a see-through attempt to further extend an already short staffed federal government in order to justify selling it off in pieces to the millionaire and billionaire class.

One final question, is Elon Musk doing this all purely out of the goodness of his heart? He has nothing to gain from what he is doing?

Basic game theory suggests that maybe he is acting more selfishly than we are being told.

I’m sorry. Just one thing to clear up. Are you saying that the public at large that pays taxes are the parasite?

Veterans seeing the doctor at their VA location are parasites?

Is the clean air and clean water we drink, seat belt laws, cancer research, etc. immoral? I’m not following what you’re saying at all.

This is what’s keeping me as well. I’m ending up writing my config to run on macOS AND Debian because I need the battery life when I’m out and about.