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> The public sector won't do it because people complain about the public debt. This isn't true, though. The US consistently elects republican administrations t
by zanny 6y ago
> The public sector won't do it because people complain about the public debt.
This isn't true, though. The US consistently elects republican administrations that jack up deficits to cover tax cuts for billionaires and nobody bats an eye. The military can blow 700bn a year with barely a peep of outrage. And unlike with infrastructure investment that money is effectively a 700bn jobs program for 3 million people that produce nothing of value.
Complaining about debt is usually a cover for bigotry. People don't want social equity or fairness because leveling the playing field is deconstructing hierarchies people were born into and base their personality on. Its why attacking institutional racism in the police is taken as an attack on the culture, personhood, and lifestyles of cops and white suburbia.
- vandalatyou 6y ago> That produce nothing of value. What an amazingly naive point of view. > Complaining about debt is usually a cover for bigotry. People don't want social equity or fairness because leveling the playing field... This could be a paragraph out of the millenial reactionaries handbook..not only are the concepts of social equity and fairness highly subjective and controversial but debasing majority cultural bias to construct a level playing field is so historically unsuccessful as to make it a philosophical curiosity (aside from with a singularly unsuccessful foray into the real world which ended in despotism and pogroms for all).