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There's really a very fundamental lack of imagination going on in economics if people there are defending a state where there is clearly work that needs doing (
by neffy 7y ago
There's really a very fundamental lack of imagination going on in economics if people there are defending a state where there is clearly work that needs doing (bridge repair for starters), and people available to do it.
The equivalent in a computer would be a bunch of processors sitting idle, because the programmers couldn't figure out multi-threading.
- asdff 7y agoThe money that is used to pay for that work has been extracted from the economy and hoarded away. If you want better schools and infrastructure, step 1 is to tax property at market rate.