Snowball
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Our economy can do things that would have been impossible no matter how much money we spent on it 30 years ago.
It has become thousands of times more efficient. We do things remotely and send robots to fight wars so people don't have to die in wars. We cure things that used to be incurable. We have robots make things we used to enslave people and force people to work.
All because we created a government and economic system that incentivized growth and regulated broken windows economic activity. I can only imagine what older people think of the modern world.
We have had more human progress in the last 250 years than the 250,000 years before that and now we are on the verge of artificial super intelligence. That will be in my lifetime for sure.
Again, none of that has anything to do with the Federal deficit and our hyper-financialization schemes, because usury and monetary debasement are not boons necessary to produce effective labour and innovation. They are parasites, not prime movers.
Your reference to the broken window FALLACY as a positive, beneficial technique (waging unnecessary wars, military-industrial complex), tells us all we need to know, and you should be aware that your viewpoint is acerbic and as morally bankrupt as the financial bankruptcy you advocate.
