ARPA (the American Rescue Plan Act) alone built a ton of very useful things all over the place, but the press quite genuinely couldn't be bothered to report on most of it
Karl Bode
something I think about a lot is that pandemic relief and Bidenomics left the most of the working class better off in terms of money and savings than at any point in several decades, and a huge fraction of them threw the money into crypto magic beans and various meme stocks
