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by lottin 246 days ago
How does exactly "breaking windows" improve the lives of people?
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By creating work that needs to be done, and thus forcing people to start spending.
To bring things back to the original point, there's always a way for health centers to spend money improving patient care. They could hire more nurses and give the existing ones more sleep, for example. In the context of the analogy, a broken window is diverting resources from the broken plumbing and refrigerator motor instead of creating an incentive to spend where none existed.