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This is the Broken Window Fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window) --
by vgel 5y ago
This is the Broken Window Fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window) -- without the military spending, those same jobs could have been created by the government to do something useful, like fixing our crumbling infrastructure.
- astrange 5y agoThe studies giving our infrastructure bad grades are mostly coming from the contractors we'd be hiring to fix them.
- willis936 5y agoI drive on our roads. I drink our water. As anyone who does these things can tell you: our infrastructure is a god damn trainwreck.
- Schiendelman 5y agoA bridge just collapsed in Pennsylvania. In Seattle we have a major chunk of the city cut off because a bridge cracked. Every city’s transit system is aging or needs expansion badly.
- astrange 5y agoWasn’t the bridge undermined by a gas leak? Not much you can do about that unless you want a spare bridge somewhere else.