AOC’s 100% renewable generation by 2035 goal is plain nonsense to anyone with familiarity with how we generate energy today. Huckabee might be an assclown but in this case he’s a correct assclown. There are a boatload of technological, financial, and plain old process issues that make that goal unobtainable. Even if…

You know what you don’t lose over some technicality with your employer? Your personal retirement accounts...

Meh on the financing.

People want what they want now and they’re comfortable blaming the consequences on someone else (employer, economy, “the rich”, etc) later.

This is obvious if you think about it...

“Politics is not a game.”

Hopefully at least some of these people got laid off this week.

Rightfully so.

The Chicken Tax is protectionism. Plain and simple. Protectionism is in the wheelhouse of both parties.

Stuff like this is what happens when people have a delusional assessment of their importance/value.

“No pharma company would stop trying to innovate, no investor would quit the business.”

Try doing some research instead of bitching and moaning about a system you don’t understand.

As normal, folks like you create strawmen to argue against instead of discussing reality and looking at the actual position of the people you’re disagreeing with.

As normal, folks like you create strawmen to argue against instead of discussing reality and looking at the actual position of the people you’re disagreeing with.

Are you one of those people that genuinely believes in a world where shareholders (aka owners) will just make less money and that will happen in a vacuum without any impact on the people their companies employ or the services their companies provide?

What happens if (more like when) people stop bothering to do the research and development work in the first place? What happens if all the highly compensated people in those industries decide to take their perfectly capable smarts to do other things instead?

“You didn’t share any links, so I am unsure from where you got that data.”

“Capitalists operating within the framework of capitalism have every incentive to grab every possible dollar they can as soon as possible and keep them all. Should disaster strike, the government can ride to the rescue.”

What you’re describing is a huge part of how wealth inequality happens. It’s not the nefarious scheme where people lie, cheat, and steal that GMG writers like to imagine. It’s the totally mundane process where people that have a financial clue put their money to work by leveraging the eighth wonder of the world…

Did you guys really manage to blur every face except the black kid’s?