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With an economy about a quarter of the size of America’s, it was able to maintain rough military parity by spending four times as much of its national income on defense as the US did – to the detriment of the living standards of ordinary citizens.

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So these are little ordinary, everyday heroes, and they're incredibly admirable, but there's no way that they can sustain this kind of activity in the face of a system that either roots them out or grinds them down.

Though their loan recipients were high-risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.

This is not beyond the grasp of ordinary people.

Ordinary people are capable of understanding this information, if we only go to the effort of presenting it to them in a form that they can engage with.

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