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What's remarkable is how this is a clear case study of the amount of wealth destroyed _by gutting government_

If I were to try to be pithy: Capitalism destroyed by the incompetency of libertarian ideals.

I honestly can not even parse out what the general direction of your argument is here.

not an argument, an attempt to synthesize this event into a parable. Failed attempt at that ;)

This is an inconvenient fact because most HNers tend to be wealthy or upper-middle class, first-world and myopic to their limited filter bubbles... and so utopian anarcho-capitalism and Austrian school economics seems meritocratic, functional, justified and superior to everything else.

I usually vote for "far-left" parties, yet I have no idea how Dorsey giving $1B away "is a clear case study of the amount of wealth destroyed _by gutting government_", so maybe the downvoters simple don't think emeerson has made a good and clear point.

To clarify my thinking: defunding Govt' pandemic preparedness became a forcing function for the individually wealthy to deploy private capital with much higher $$$ cost.

Point taken that its a stretch of the imagination.

Assuming that many people are of Austrian school of thought here and thus brush this 'inconvenient fact' off seems ridiculous.

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