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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

And yes this too — you can (and we did) replace the wages of unemployed people to some extent, but there's also a large extent to which society needs the work to be done or else you get bare shelves and nobody to fix the leaking pipes. https://t.co/hu6lwWsfkw — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias It also reflects a lack of understanding of the difference between money and the economy. You can pay… https://t.co/LyYBpA6Xa1

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(a) The CARES Act provided extremely generous social assistance (b) More importantly, this genre of commentary reflects a weirdly impoverished view of human existence and people's reasons for wanting to leave the house — PolitiTweet.org

In March 2020, we could have cancelled rent and paid people to stay home. Instead, we forced people to go to work s… https://t.co/4ZVcR7Ix8r

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@salimfurth It's an FAA rule of some kind, not sure if there's any good basis for it. — PolitiTweet.org

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