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  • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDon't give Elon more money.
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    1 year ago

    While I’m not naive enough to think there will be any meaningful reduction in personal car usage in my remaining lifetime (~20-30 years), I’d like us to START making infrastructure investments that will at least point us in the right direction. But no, it’s endless stroads and sprawl and retail development and single family housing as far as the eye can see.



  • Of course, how this would actually work:

    Workers: “What do we get?”

    AR: “Well, half of you are fired, the other half keep working just as hard.”

    AR: “What’s with the guillotine?”

    Workers: “We’re acting in our rational self-interest.”

    AR: “I see.”

    AR: “They’re the reason you can’t get a job. If they didn’t form a UNION to keep you OUT, you’d be doing just fine! And I can’t fire THEM, thanks to the UNION.”

    AR: “Well, I’d love to give you more time off, but I can’t, because those MOOCHERS over there are freeloading on the system, and I gotta pay outrageous taxes for their welfare because THEY DON’T WORK.”

    Media: “Let’s talk to two experts in the labor field.”

    Expert 1: “Oh, the problem is definitely abusive, bloated unions and exclusive contracts.”

    Expert 2: “Oh, the problem is definitely freeloading welfare queens.”

    Workers:

    AR: Flies away in her golden private jet, “MUHAHAHAHAHA!”