dhc710

dhc710 t1_j523ky9 wrote

Reply to comment by ekkidee in Bloomberg: Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System. Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people by ombx

The Governor in NJ just banned plastic bags, which I'm thrilled about.

Unfortunately, he didn't take the extra step to mandate paper bags, likely because they're more expensive to make and stores didn't want to foot the bill.

So the effects were:

  • No one remembered to bring reusable bags
  • All the shopping baskets were stolen
  • Reusable plastic/polyester/whatever bags were made available for sale cheap
  • Everyone just buys them at checkout and likely throws them away after they've accumulated too many

It's a shitshow.

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dhc710 t1_ixi7fyf wrote

Reply to comment by PaxNova in On The Rising Non-Working Class (And What Their Despair Says About Us All) by capcaunul

The guest in the article makes it sound like the Democrats are all just desperately trying to institute UBI which, besides being not true, would be a far more direct form of wealth redistribution than what I described.

Talk to any Progressive Bernie/AOC fan, there's plenty of Pelosi haters on the left lol

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dhc710 t1_ixi0vh4 wrote

Reply to On The Rising Non-Working Class (And What Their Despair Says About Us All) by capcaunul

I stopped reading this when the guest summed up the swath of proposed economic solutions from "the left" as "wealth redistribution". This whole article reads like a Rogan/Peterson conversation.

Its not that the rich suddenly and unexplainably got richer since the 60s, and now the looney left wants to tax them.

The corporate tax was orders of magnitude higher before then, we stopped taxing them. The last few decades have all been a failed experiment in trickle-down economics.

Reset the corporate tax back to where it was (along with a sensible estate tax, a windfall profits tax, and a carbon tax) and use the money on social programs (housing vouchers, addiction services, M4A, mental health, etc), public infrastructure, and government-run replacements for working class employers that found it cheaper to move their operations to China.

This isn't as philosophical as these eggheads are making it out to be. And no one but an isolated minority is seriously proposing UBI. The right needs to stop thinking that Nancy Pelosi is speaking for the left.

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