On: Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault

[atdrummond]

The bigger issue is that these typical “post-crisis infrastructure spending results in massive economic gains!” stories ignore the opportunity cost of spending that money on repair rather than something else.

Committing this mistake can result in very unfortunate conclusions, such as breaking windows leads to economic growth.

[petersellers → atdrummond]

"Our economy's in the toilet, we should start another war to stimulate spending!"

[pasquinelli → petersellers]

i think that sums up american history since the great depression.