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by labster 2021 days ago
Sure, the societal reset would start with promises of local manufacturing jobs but pretty soon they’d be getting guillotines imported from Shenzhen.

Ideas of large social changes always sound good in the abstract, but once you propose a real plan the devil is always in the details. In the US, we can’t even agree to let the government forgive student loan debt it already owns — but somehow completely reworking corporate debt and property will work/help/ever possibly happen?