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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by bbarnett on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:09AM (#35229001)
Not quite.

What I will agree with, is that while it could be wrapped into an economic decision, if so, then "making sure there are hospitals there", or police, or schools is also an economic decision.

Which pretty much means that with such reasoning, all centralized planning is. Many economists might disagree.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by MichaelZuo on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:50AM (#35231472)
Everything that involves resources is certainly at least an economic decisions, or political-economic decision, etc.
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