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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.

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RustCat@hexbear.net 24 points 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@hexbear.net 25 points 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@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Because it didn't have to work.

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