Only in America can a Canadian billionaire waltz into a drought-ridden state on the verge of ecological collapse and get a massive data center campus rubber-stamped with huge tax breaks. Zero local input. But made possible by the bought and paid for government!
I can’t wrap my head around American lower and middle class people thinking free healthcare, universities, and public services would HURT them financially?
Literally allowing the billionaire class to flourish with YOUR tax dollars. It’s delusional.
You can't hoard $10 trillion for yourself without taking it away from everyone else. He's telling the world he plans to impoverish us all. Real supervillain shit.
This cost them about $1 trillion.
The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people.
And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.
im scared of adult who think minors are supposed to be sound decision makers, that they “knew better”……. you don’t remember what your brain was like as a teenager?? especially if you didn’t have proper guidance??
My credit score dropped when I paid off my car and student loans. Credit agencies said I should get more loans to increase my credit score. The system punishes you for not owing them money. They want you to be in debt. Credit scoring is a scam.
The elder care + childcare bind is going to be THE story of the next 5-10 years. Already starting. When your parents had you at 35-40, and you had your kids at 40, the convergence of everyone needing you all at once is going to be very tough—women hardest hit.
MacKenzie Scott divorced Jeff Bezos and got $36 billion in the divorce.
She has donated $26 billion to charity since then.
She’s now worth $42 billion, six billion MORE than when she started
TAX THE BILLIONAIRES. THEY’LL BE FINE.
If a man rapes a woman and she gets an abortion, 48 states allow him to sue her or the clinic. The rapist gets more legal rights to that pregnancy than she does. Read that again…