oh competely agreed, I’m just pointing out the dishonest framing by politicians and pundits

but how will we pay for <anything that’s not increased military spending>???

talk about social services and taxes are like a bake sale, talk about funding war and it’s what you describe

Government spending doesn’t work like your bank account. Instead of just letting banks invent money through fractional reserve banking the government can pay for these kinds of essential services with new money. Taxation isn’t like having a bake sale so you can afford to buy things, it’s one way for money to be drawn out of the economy so that inflation is controlled.

Yes some taxes raise money proportional to some other spending and are ear-marked for that, but notice how no new taxes had to be introduced to give tens of billions to Ukraine and Israel?

The government can pay for public services.

If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.