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Re:The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution by twblalock on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:33PM (#23666126)
There is a big difference between "possible for a few months" and "possible indefinitely". A lot of what we did during the lockdowns was never going to be sustainable.

By the way, the "helicopter money" thing was proposed by Milton Friedman, a libertarian economist who was influenced by Hayek and who was highly critical of most forms of government intervention in the economy.

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Re:The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution by fuvkthisguy on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:58PM (#23666234)
> There is a big difference between "possible for a few months" and "possible indefinitely". A lot of what we did during the lockdowns was never going to be sustainable.

I would be interested to see an argument for this point, because I don't think it stands on its own.

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