the extent to which the federal government has handed giant taxpayer-funded consolation prizes to industries that *cannot* be expected to recover + forced itself onto every PPE/test/research process only to serve as a blocked bottleneck for many of them should... concern you
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that the good ol' boy arrangements persist shouldn't surprise you, but it should probably piss you off a little bit more than it did in peacetime
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to be 100% clear, the US government has more than enough *money* to rush vaccine/treatment development, build factories en masse, test imported supplies what it lacks is general capacity, organizational flexibility & incentives downstream of the stupid pretty faces we elect
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congratulations; they're stupid across multiple dimensions — I recommend trying to meet more people who understand the disutility of a cart when all the horses have long fled.
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GoV SHoULd bE DOWNSIZed sO AmeRICa cOULd ThrIVe
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https://www.epsilontheory.com/first-the-people/#.XpWu7ZcOTVg.twitter … This is a great long read covering the avalanche of institutions being exposed by covid
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This pandemic is a crisis of globalization, after all
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