Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Hitler didn’t trust his generals | Schleicher & the Fall of the Weimar Republic" video.
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Yes and no. Keynesians love slurping up every erg of surplus energy available in the system, give it to government, and then say "$ee? Big government is why the economy is so big!"
On the other hand, the fable of $tone $oup teaches a vital truth of which Keynesians avail themselves and that is that the value of paper currency has more to do with the faith put in it than the actual value. Inflation always lags behind inflationary actions, and that lag does create wealth on paper.
Also, infrastructure projects: roads, bridges and dams, do appear to make everyone wealthier in the medium term, but maybe the spread of human civilization across the entire planet needs no artificial accelerants, and the great success of federal infrastructure projects only led to a more wasteful and destructive way of life than if infrastructure were left to entrepreneurs and local communities. Boy that federally-funded highway/railroad was great for trade, but maybe America would've turned out OK if the expansion were mutually agreed to, and negotiated, rather than imposed by force by larger populations on smaller populations that were living quite sustainably on those lands, already, and the unsustainable city folks have to steal to survive. They love "our democracy." "You have to move. We voted on it."
If your way is truly better, folks will adopt your way, over time, in the natural course of things.
Anyway, I've always doubted the "grow or die" philosophy. Growth mandated by political entities isn't organic growth, and it never worries about sustainability of its authoritarian arrogance. It only sees the problems it creates as being insoluble by anything other than more authoritarian solutions.
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