The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.

  • D61 [any]
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    1 month ago

    The difference between building something in a matter weeks versus a matter months.

    • RustCat [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      The war has been going on for 8 months and we've known aid is not coming in fast enough pretty much the entire time. Why didn't they simply start construction earlier?

      • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 month ago

        also, the supposed humanitarian purpose of the pier could even have been easily achieved with negative dollars spent, by simply not sending said dollars to isn'treal

      • D61 [any]
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        1 month ago

        Because it didn't have to work.

      • D61 [any]
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        1 month ago

        You know what I meant. friend-visitor-1