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“anything we can actually do, we can afford”

stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 15
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM