holy fuuuuuk, that very last sentence
“… and most importantly, how do we pay for it?”
She’s a Sunday morning tv ghoul. She’s a ghoul’s ghoul - as they all are.
“Yeah we could save the planet, preventing a coming decline and potential extinction event, but at what cost”
These are the questions they have students answer in business school.
- You have a 100% guaranteed cost right now with uncertain benefits
Or
- You have uncertain future costs down the line with uncertainty around those being worse than now on top of uncertain benefits now and in the future.
WWYD
It’s basically a time value of money problem. That’s the genius of the free market.
the “defining health crisis of our time.”
Wow, I can’t wait to see how libs try to fix it.
How about another 75 billion for Ukraine ?
But there's a solution!...
Vote!
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I have to stop making such dem jokes. But they are nearly always topical and I just can’t resist.
Now I’m genuinely curious: are there any problems that have been solved by neoliberalism?
There was a problem of the poor having too much money and the rich not having all the money, they solved that one.
Creating jobs for middle managers
How many 9/11s is that, twenty? If only there was another country to blame it on then something could be done about it.
If only there was another country to blame it on
Russian disinformation and meddling is driving innocent Americans to suicide.
Passing a law that you can be charged with manslaughter for talking badly about the economy because that data bares out that it’s doing well.
For comparison, I remember reading before the pandemic that the yearly number of deaths in America from lack of healthcare is almost 70,000
So…fuck. Almost as many suicides as that.
Ok so every couple of years this same headline comes out.
But there is never a % or per-capita number for suicides. Of course there’s going to be more suicides when there’s more and more people. What has the suicide rate per capita been? How much has that gone up?
They do the same thing with overdose deaths. Never give a per capita rate.
Not that i don’t see suicides and overdoses as a problem caused by capitalism. Of course they are. An honest conversation is important though.
Edit: here is more data that makes the picture much more clear than the media sensationalism which is all we ever get: https://sprc.org/about-suicide/scope-of-the-problem/suicide-deaths-in-the-united-states/
This is some dark shit…it reminds me of an old onion news video without a punchline. Just a failed, miserable state with an evil propaganda mouthpiece to go “HEY WHA HAPPEN?”
