i'm an advocate of mmt, and i believe in funding r&d. but, if we are moving back to this kind of model, we need to have some oversight to ensure that bourgeois bankers parties that are driven by international finance don't take advantage of it as a way to pump money offshore to their upper class cronies.

and, it doesn't take a lot of insight to realize that that is what is actually happening, under the cover of public spending in a pandemic.

capitalists are the worst kinds of jerks, the worst kinds of creeps - always were. anything for a buck, and any surplus value is as good as the next.