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Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data
- rednafi 2y ago[flagged]
- KennyBlanken 2y agoWe should crowdfund someone to follow him around with a giant posterboard of all his various hot takes that ended up being wrong
- smt88 2y ago[flagged]
- KennyBlanken 2y agoDestroying agencies that collect statistics is a "feature", not a bug. Why deal with unemployment, declining GDP, etc when you can just shut down the agency figuring out how many people are unemployed and where the GDP is going? Better yet, outsource it to the guy who gave you $10M in campaign donations or bought your crypto coins and then wink-nodded at you, and give him a $50M contract to do something the feds were doing for $20M - and he lies to make you look better. Win-win-win...
- whatshisface 2y agoThis might be true for air pollution and preventable diseases, but these quick losses in real wealth are immediately apparent.
- hiddencost 2y agoPlenty of authoritarian countries cook the books successfully. The story of Yeltsin visiting an American grocery store comes to mind: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When... "He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."" Given how woefully behind American healthcare and education and retirement is, it's quite remarkable Americans don't understand how poor they are.
- whatshisface 2y agoIt's one thing to say that someone who lives far away isn't as well off as they claim to be and another to say that someone's retirement account hasn't gone down.
- hiddencost 2y agoSee here's the thing. It's easy to prevent it from going down. You just print money. The number goes up but the purchasing power goes down.
- hattmall 2y agoHow woefully behind is American Healthcare, Education and retirement exactly though?
- hmottestad 2y agoLife expectancy in the US is behind 47 countries according to https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ Infant mortality rate is behind 53 countries: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison/ https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... This definitely won’t be representative of the full spectrum of health care, but it’s what I found after a quick search. I wouldn’t call it woefully behind, but definitely not winning any medals anytime soon.
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- spiderfarmer 2y agoIt’s all infrastructure, physical and non physical. There was an investment gap of 2.6 trillion dollars under Biden. Expect that gap to increase and see way more stuff collapse in the coming decades.