Isn’t the idea that the money and resources have to come from somewhere?
Raise taxes or debt for the monetary side. Divert workers and other resources on the implementation side. Both of those might be better used by the private sector
Raise taxes or debt for the monetary side. Divert workers and other resources on the implementation side. Both of those might be better used by the private sector
So “divert” seems misleading. If the American government hadn’t “diverted” funds to build ARPANET half a century ago, we’d probably be stuck with the equivalents of AOL-style walled gardens instead of a single Internet because that’s the kind of network that private interests wanted to have.
You're right in that you remark that it's less bad than it initially seems. Some wealth is indeed recovered when the broken window is repaired. However everyone is by necessity worse off than if you didn't break the window in the first place.