I agree that it’s a complicated issue with no easy/clear answer, especially in the long term. But destroying the lives of 10s of millions of people is a tough sell. Especially when the ones making those decisions have their jobs well secured.
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Replying to @DemocratsCongr2 @arthur_affect and
Printing money doesn’t provide things we need to live. By saying that we expect “essential” workers to work while everyone else can stay home and still get paid doesn’t sit right with me. Essential workers are risking their lives so everyone else can sit on their ass.
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The essential workers do not in any sense benefit from opening everything back up, the less social distancing you have the more risk you pile on essential/frontline workers with every interaction
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Economic growth has saved more lives than medicine by an order of magnitude. So I’d say that an improved economy is pretty beneficial to everyone. You can’t even get cancer screenings done right now. Tell me how that’s saving lives.
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Your stupid platitudes about "growth" and "incentive" have absolutely nothing to do with material reality, and the idea that letting people get haircuts from stylists again etc has anything to do with the material foundation of the economy is pure delusion
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Look at worldwide life expectancy growth alone since the end of WWII and tell me that economic growth hasn’t improved the lives of billions. Innovation in medicine, agriculture, trade, energy, technology etc. have improved and saved lives
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There are multiple specific things that happened that led to increased life expectancy etc that your ideology wraps up into one thing called "economic growth" through pure tautology
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemocratsCongr2 and
It's only by looking at it from a very rough, distant POV that you can say "higher GDP = better life" Is life generally better in the US than South Sudan? Sure. Is that because of the US's higher GDP? You might think so, until you compare the US to other countries closer to it
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Turns out the US is worse in terms of lifespan, health outcomes, psychological happiness, etc than many other countries it has a higher GDP than
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But yes, if you don't do any analysis and are lazy, you can just assert that the US having, say, more competing chains of fast food restaurants than South Sudan is the same exact thing as having lower infant mortality
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And then you can start making absurd, awful arguments that that's why opening up the fast food restaurants right now is intrinsically necessary to saving lives from a pandemic because making the dollars move around makes people live longer
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