Those are some pretty big caveats. The reason I asked is because I was troubled by the cornerstone of "giving a shit". I'm honestly even more troubled now, haha. I've been looking at what we can expect post QE, especially as sovereign debt crises seem to be popping up everywhere. I can see opposed interests continuing (to some extent), but I'm not sure we have models for this level of accumulation. What are the examples?

What are you citing here? Because I'm getting strong "invisible hand" vibes.

Are there really simultaneous earthquakes going on on opposite sides of the globe? Fuck. Me.

Democracy is directly opposed to concentrated power. Why would the people at the top oppose backsliding?

Edit: and more importantly, why are you expecting them to?

Maybe we should do something instead of screaming and hoping someone does it for us.

I agree. We should have done literally all of those things.

I totally agree. And it would've made a lot of sense to subsidize those things at any point in the last 40 years. Now we're doing the good ol neoliberal "well we defunded it and now it doesn't work, we gotta privatize it, waddaya want from us" complaint. But this time with respect to the continuation of human civilization.

I wonder how many wind turbines we could've built with this 13B. I'm not against giving it to people, of course, but why not both? How many solar panels could we have built with the money we sent to Ukraine? How far could we have pushed tidal power generation with the ridiculous amount of money going to the CHIPS act?

And that's all before we talk about my actual proposals, like nationalizing the oil companies and abolishing capitalism. But hey, we could've started small. Instead we get this bullshit and told to like it.

They called Monza top flight.