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Remember to support your local library (lemmy.world)
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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days 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.