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Re:The Pandemic Boom Goes Bust by pjc50 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:59AM (#30127920)
Lack of state capacity, really: there is no way that level of labor mobilization could have happened, and people would have screamed about it every step of the way. The US absolutely hates anything that looks like government expansion, unless it has camo on it.

I suppose it could have been the 1037th Non-Combat Plumber Division and everyone would have been fine with that.

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Re:The Pandemic Boom Goes Bust by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:05PM (#30128683)
This isn't far fetched.

Militaries in other countries are evolving to do more public works and less defense / offense.

A lot of the infrastructure to facilitate it (the hiring, training, coordination, etc) is there.

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