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The risk of exposing this sort of information to general availability is that its easily weaponized as a propaganda tool for the political cause of the day, ril
by pnathan 9y ago
The risk of exposing this sort of information to general availability is that its easily weaponized as a propaganda tool for the political cause of the day, riling up the uninformed and unskilled (I am both essentially uninformed and unskilled in the art of macroeconomics).
- gavinpc 9y agoThat's not a risk, that's the raison d'etre. In the fifteen seconds most people will spend scrolling through this (of those who bother at all), only two things will be left in their mind: Social Security and California. I expect to hear a lot of "discussion" about Social Security in the next few cycles. They're coming after it again (cf 2005). It's already happening on this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301591
- pnathan 9y agosigh. i am tired of the 'soak the poor' rhetoric so popular.
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