Comment by lottin
How does exactly "breaking windows" improve the lives of people?
How does exactly "breaking windows" improve the lives of people?
To bring things back to the original point, there's always a way for health centers to spend money improving patient care. They could hire more nurses and give the existing ones more sleep, for example. In the context of the analogy, a broken window is diverting resources from the broken plumbing and refrigerator motor instead of creating an incentive to spend where none existed.
By creating work that needs to be done, and thus forcing people to start spending.