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The “if it saves even one life” rhetoric was a brilliant invention because it created a false dichotomy between money and lives. Even now, some people still don’t understand that we need a robust economy to produce vital things like food, medicine, and housing. It was never money vs. lives. It was a few highly publicized lives vs. many, many invisible ones.

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100%, Fat. It drove me crazy that people didn't see that.

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