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A Boring Dystopia
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From 1977 to 2021, in 2021 inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local government spending on police increased from $47 billion to $135 billion, an increase of 189 percent.
Privatize the profits, socialize the costs
gestures broadly at the entire us pharmaceutical industry