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Remember to support your local library (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Libraries and education are an investment even for a capitalist. The only beneficiaries of lacking both are religious slave states.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Indeed, there have been studies that education is one of the highest RoI investments a country can make.

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 4 months ago

For oligarchy they are not, since economic development reduces the oligarch's power, which is a thing relative to the total size of economy. Same with social power.