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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by the_optimist on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:38PM (#30170574)
Utterly and laughably wrong. Anything other than basic education and viable community-level institutions is going to have this effect. Play stupid wealth transfer games and win zero dreamy wealth transfer prizes.
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by systemvoltage on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:08PM (#30171668)
We will see how it fails as California will inevitably try it. It will be a spectacular failure on a monumental scale and a canary in the coal mine.
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by the_optimist on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:12AM (#30177764)
I have no doubt this will be proclaimed to have “worked!” on a small scale. But this is not engineering, this is society, and society scales much differently.
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