haha.

They need to finish this pipeline and the Keystone project as well.

Awesome.

We can’t change the past, but we can certainly learn from it. Instead of pretending these new pipelines are something we need (like you are) we can demand that these companies use some funds from the massive public subsidies they receive to repair their own fucking pipes. Or even (shocker) put some of those funds back…

I work in retail and manufacturing sustainability. What have you done?

Why is this a new tech issue?

They dismissed me as well. Reposting becasue this is very relevant.

Hope being a dumb asshole works out for you.

HAHA!

And then Donald J. Trump proposes that we cut the taxes for corporations and wealthy real estate developers and wonder why many normal people think he’s a con man and an asshole.

ajabs85 has a huge boner for a Just World.

Yeah. People are dumb as fuck.

If there isn’t enough immediate incentive to work hard, we won’t do it.

… if a hot dog vendor was just as well off as a medical surgeon, that surgeon probably wouldn’t toil and labor as hard as he would be were his income vastly higher than the vendor.

Agree 100% that the 1% of income earners don’t deserve to pay 50%+ in taxes, they’re already the ones getting screwed

Though I do think it’s fair to say that the academic consensus tends to favor overall economic health at the expense of relative inequality

According to CNN, 450k puts you in the top 1% of income earners.

But here is the problem....to be in the fabled 1%, you have to earn around 450k per year

To me, it looks like the wealthy are doing their part…

Any actual economist could rattle off a dozen reasons not to try