There’s a world in which the US is carrying $37T, everyone lives in a spacious public condo, rides the UltraMax train around town to their 30 hour/week jobs or publicly financed doctor’s appointments or state financed university classes or luxury public park and spa.
“Sure, basically all available economic data suggests that society would become far more productive and stable if the neediest people were given enough stability to develop into contributing members of society, but if I don’t see people I don’t like suffering terribly then I will feel there is no right and wrong in the world and I might as well go have sex with a child like we all secretly want to.” - social conservatives (actually)
There’s a world in which the US is carrying $37T, everyone lives in a spacious public condo, rides the UltraMax train around town to their 30 hour/week jobs or publicly financed doctor’s appointments or state financed university classes or luxury public park and spa.
And I think that would be money well spent.
Shame we don’t live in that country
“Sure, basically all available economic data suggests that society would become far more productive and stable if the neediest people were given enough stability to develop into contributing members of society, but if I don’t see people I don’t like suffering terribly then I will feel there is no right and wrong in the world and I might as well go have sex with a child like we all secretly want to.” - social conservatives (actually)
Too self-aware