Automation, AI and robotics will dramatically improve healthcare, the environment, our homes and cities. The sky is not falling due to technology. 🗽🇺🇸🇮🇪
@justinTurner1@SpaceX The taxpayers are getting the trips to space in exchange for the purchase prices paid.
That’s the bargain.
If the taxpayers want equity, they have to buy it.
@70ms@CindyLM1969@SaltyGoat17 The governor is a democrat. So of course only some of the people are going to suspect the purpose is to advantage the party in power.
@Brad_Setser Total government spending at all levels is not that different, according to grok.
Latest Comparable Figures (IMF Data)
• United States: Around 37.9% of GDP (recent/2024 estimate). 
• China: Around 33% of GDP (recent/2024 estimate; e.g., 32.95%).
@ChoosakBurr@audiomau5@BenjaminPDixon Right. Just a little. Then a little more, ad infinitum.
Or is there some year it ended? Some defined endpoint?
No. The plan is to keep “progressing”.
@hackradios@paularambles There’s reasons I won’t leave. It has nothing to do with government services.
California has a monopoly over the best climate in the country.
That’s why it needs to be broken up into east coast size states.
When greedy government bastards compete, citizens win.
@ChoosakBurr@audiomau5@BenjaminPDixon Especially for people who have nothing.
Millions prospered because their rights were protected.
And millions are dependent on handouts, precisely because of this “let’s just steal for this” kind of thinking.
@ChoosakBurr@audiomau5@BenjaminPDixon No, there isn’t. It just partially degrades s society instead of completely crippling.
Rule of law, property rights, enforcement of contracts and a government limited to protecting life, liberty and property is vastly superior to stealing whenever you feel like it.