A corollary: the absolute silence of western voices asking what we can learn from African and Asian countries who’ve done far better with much less infrastructure is, at its core, about racism.
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The 'people who did well are different' thing is what people do when they don't want to deal with how they've done particularly badly
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I don't see how more people don't realize this. This is a perfect example of how things in our system only work under certain conditions. A lesson we should have learned after the Great Depression, but that lesson didn't stick, and we undid much of the New Deal under Reagan.
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We should have built on the New Deal over time, but we did the opposite.
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The ideals most valued by Western cultures are counterproductive in the face of a global pandemic.
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