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Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we’re impoverished by the need to pay back money we’ve been borrowing. They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments.
This is, however, a really bad analogy in at least two ways.
Everything Is a Remix: Part 3 Daring Fireball Pour yourself a tasty beverage and give yourself 11 minutes to watch this. Kirby Ferguson argues that progress comes from three things: copying, transforming, and combining. His main example: the original Macintosh. Nailed it. ★ Sent with Reeder
