alt Hacker NewsSo the argument is that we crashed the economy but at least we screwed foreigners over and not just social security?
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anigbrowl • 04/03/2025
YES. About ~30% of people appear willing to experience a loss as long as they believe they're inflicting a greater loss upon other people, and this personality type is baked in young. In my vier it's not a coincidence that polled support for Trump consistently hovers around 30%.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
Not all policy is rational. Oftentimes it's atavistic. Surely you have noticed by now that Trump deals in emotional arguments, not reasoned ones.
Wasn't that the plan all along, people always said "Ballooning Government debt is fine since unlike normal debt Governments can just print money and never really pay back the real value".
Someone has to get screwed over when you do that, who do you suggest get screwed over?