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Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
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[+] -15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I doubt public housing would have made a fantastic return either.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If all you care about is money, then yeah sure. If you actually give a shit about humanity the return would be absolutely immense for society.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    Think about it longer term... All the people struggling at the bottom now have secure housing. More money is free for nutrition, hygiene, they can get better jobs or afford schooling... Trades or higher education. More people have a chance to escape poverty and contribute production, get more money to spend, more money gets out into local economies. So and so forth. It's a good idea.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They shouldn't have that amount of disposable income in the first place, and a good portion should have been tax money. If that money were invested in public housing the return would be massive.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Really? You don't think that building solid foundations for people to get on their feet and start making more money themselves, money that they can turn around and spend on more products, would have a fantastic return? The benefit for the economy would be immense but corporations can't write that into their spreadsheets changing their bottom line so it "doesn't count"

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