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A laser-like focus on growth you say?
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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“Benefit fraud is tiny in relation to the absolute spend; back office paper pushers are actually absolutely necessary to free up user-facing staff; most decisions governments make are generally a trade off”
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Like, just less buying anything = lower GDP, hours unchanged
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Today @rutgerbregman.com posted a transcript of his Reith Lecture showing that the version that BBC aired removed the line about Trump's world-historical corruption.

BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”

newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I had the same thought and presumed it's "productivity" in the GDP divide (total labour hours) economy sense not in the "old phone slows down you working" sense
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM