• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    You know what could really improve infrastructure? Taxing billionaires and their corporations and spending that money on all the things the USA is currently defunding.

    • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
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      Some people have estimated 8x energy use for 5 as compared to 4 but the model is not 8x better, this has to be a clue to them that increasing power is not the way. But nope, trillions of dollars more will fix it.

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    1 month ago

    We could solve world hunger for a fraction of what that would cost. I wonder which we will do first? I will be holding my breath waiting.

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      1 month ago

      The only reason people are starving in this day and age is because people don’t care to fix it. We have the resources and the means. Starvation is a problem of policy.

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      1 month ago

      Please don’t hold your breath, you will die. I most certainly can say that.