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The benefits outweigh the costs because the alternative is a depression - and that's a really bad thing, people die etc. Also this isn't a symptom of a problem needing cured, it's more a symptom of the human condition.

> Its high value expenditure with newly created wealth taken from the savings of everybody else.

It's either savings or new wealth, it can't be both.

> It matters a great deal if it doesn't pay off.

I'm not sure you'd be of that opinion in a depression.



> - and that's a really bad thing, people die etc.

I'm all for saving people, lets call it charity though and not investment.

> It's either savings or new wealth, it can't be both.

True, I meant currency, its new currency taken from the savings of everybody else

> I'm not sure you'd be of that opinion in a depression.

Hypothetically if we used a global hard money system, like bitcoin, and the government was so sure that spending now would boost the economy in the future. I see no problem in them taking a loan and building some highways.

They would have to pay it back though...


Investment is the act undertaken. Call the outcome what you will.

> True, I meant currency, its new currency taken from the savings of everybody else

New currency is new currency. It comes from nowhere. It devalues all existing currency, not just savings.

> I see no problem in them taking a loan and building some highways.

These projects are typically undertaken with debt. New currency is generally introduced in the bond market.




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