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0 pointsmiltonlost1y ago0 comments

And life SUCKED then. Absolutely no labor rights, food filled with sawdust, income inequality, bank runs constantly, no retirement.

The national debt increased because we increased the amount of the federal government does, it the income tax.

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greatpatton1y ago

No healthcare, no public research to today's extent, no military etc. etc. Yes when your government is doing nothing normally it doesn't cost that much.

tanseydavid1y ago

When was there no military? When was the US government literally doing nothing?

wyager1y ago

> And life SUCKED then

More than 100% of the net improvement is from tech and medical R&D, not the bloated military-welfare apparatus.

kristjansson1y ago

What created the conditions for that R&D to take place in relative security, and to be realize its return in a global marketplace?

jepj571y ago

And Silicon Valley was originally majority weapons/ tech r&d for the military.

Bletchly Park? Military.

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