@swinshi Well if you look at it per capita and years of life lost I think we lose. Even when you take out suicides too. Heat deaths are mostly old people.
@mattyglesias Isn’t it worth differentiating between monopolies and monopolizing? Sometimes monopolies are good for the consumer. It’s nice to get a variety of cheap stuff all in one place like Walmart and Amazon.
@SwipeWright There is something particularly distasteful about this celebration though given its location. The place God obliterated for its sinfulness. Most famously for its sexual immorality.
@cremieuxrecueil A perfect example of why populism hurts the people they property to help. All the average schmo thinks is “why should I have to pay taxes on something I already paid for?”