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by MangoToupe 217 days ago
None of this is really true, though (except the paper straw thing which... obviously)

> Unfortunately, in non-0 interest rate reality, governments can't keep deficit spending to prop up a broken socialist economic model.

Governments have deficit spending because we subsidize private inefficiency at a social level and refuse to run them efficiently. It's insisting on letting private entities run things that is clearly not working.