Something the Sun newspaper knew when it still had page 3 is that there's nothing more attractive than a girl who looks like something you'd have the chance of pulling on a night out. She's the girl next door
This guy is arguing that Ireland would have been justified in allying with the Nazis. This is nuts and disgusting.
Anti-English hate rots the brain and corrupts the soul.
@GaymerGurlUwU@TrueSlazac Nobody was ever on the VR train except for Zuckerberg and with crypto the only people hyping it were those directly making money off it. This is different as there's a lot of institutional uptake on it and it's potential is obvious
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes For many industries the only realistic customer at first is the government so spending or at least the promise of spending has to preempt the productive capacity. At any rate I'm not arguing all demand should be government driven but government spending is a good way prioritise
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes I hardly see why you would even make a distinction between those two things but regardless the reason it doesn't "directly" create wealth is because any parts of the public sector that did were spun off into private entities in the 80's and we are all the worse for it
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes It's not the 1800's anymore, and in order to be competitive the government has to provide a much broader range of services than it once did. And that's for the business, the government is also, rightly, expected to provide services that don't feed directly into the wealth cycle
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes I'm not making an argument about the UK's priorities when it comes to spending. I'm just attacking this asinine belief that the public sector has nothing to do with wealth creation. It's so obviously false that I'm amazed I'm sitting here arguing about it
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes Of course the public sector itself can produce wealth as well. Just the particular model most western governments have taken these last few decades has produced the above model. Taken it too far imo, no reason power should be in private hands.
@hazlooord98925@PeterB756@seekingalfie@VintageMrHobbes The private sector creates it by leveraging the environment that is produced by the public sector. The public sector is further upstream than the private sector but it still has a vital role to play in wealth creation as it is a prerequisite to a thriving private sector