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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by mikepurvis on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:51PM (#42458525)
Just be careful that “prosperous” is actually the metric you care about and that you some sane way of measuring said prosperity as it applies to everyone.

For myself as a Canadian, I can see that America is more “prosperous” in the sense that the averages look good, but I’ll take my socialized medicine and higher education thank you very much.

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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by WalterBright on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:28AM (#42459256)
It's hard to ignore the astounding success of the free market when it's applied.

The immigrants to the US were pretty much people with nothing but a suitcase. With the American free market, the country rose from subsistence farming to superpower. Scores of millions of people were lifted out of poverty into the middle class and beyond.

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