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Unfortunately that mindset is bleeding into our governing system. Make the short-term numbers look good at the expense of long term prosperity.
by zyang 7y ago
Unfortunately that mindset is bleeding into our governing system. Make the short-term numbers look good at the expense of long term prosperity.
- JackFr 7y ago> Unfortunately that mindset is bleeding into our governing system. Make the short-term numbers look good at the expense of long term prosperity. What does that even mean?
- dmos62 7y agoWhich part do you not understand?
- JackFr 7y ago> Unfortunately that mindset is bleeding into our governing system. Make the short-term numbers look good at the expense of long term prosperity. I admit some confusion at which 'short-term numbers' are being optimized at the expense of long term prosperity. I realize I may have been to literal in my reading -- the complaint is that our government is focussed on the short term at the expense of the long term.
- ska 7y agoThe state of infrastructure maintenance in many (most?) regions suggests there is at least possibly something to this.
- zyang 7y agoMaybe I'm just looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. Now we rely on rate cuts and tax cuts to inflate our paper wealth. California couldn't build a high speed rail with all its wealth. Our astronauts had to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to ISS.
- JackFr 7y ago> but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. The interstate system could be seen as a boondoggle to make automakers rich at the expense of the US having a modern rail network. Without question the moon landing and the Hoover Dam were historic engineering feats but they were both products of their eras. The Hoover Dam was a prewar Great Depression jobs effort and the moon landing would never have been possible but for the Cold War.
- minikites 7y agoWe've gone from "a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" to "lets burn down the forest for farmland because climate change will happen after I'm dead, so whatever"