thisorthatorwhatever @ thisorthatorwhatever @lemmy.world

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Look at who they asked to return, such as air-traffic-controllers. Some fights they are losing.

Any important department will them to fuck off with the A.I., but Medicare patients will be stuck with it. It's a slow moving disaster that any average person sees coming.

Roads that are too big, house that are too spread out.

Police because stores refuse to hire their own security and offload it to onto your property tax.

Sewers because dumb people are too stupid to compost properly, and now we need chemicals on farm fields since the traditional method of composting is dead.

Garbage trucks and landfills because companies sell you wrappers and containers that outlive the products and are made from toxic waste.

You have to think more like Trump, LOL. The rich don't pay any taxes through the use of loopholes. Why should you. Slum lords should be forced to pay taxes, not working class schmo that needs a roof over their heads. Tax the slum lords.

Top down education doesn't work, that's how we get stuck with schools that have massive IT budgets with little to show for them. Most teachers don't use anything beyond spreadsheets and Youtube.
I don't think that there is an easy fix.
I'd like to think local autonomy would help, so small communities could design their own curriculum, but I'm too much of a pessimist and see such experiments failing quickly because of corruption and incompetence.

Fuck cars! Demand public transit.

Also, fuck cars. Every major street should have dedicated light rail in its own right of way, being given signal priority. The people that bought Tesla's early on as status symbols, did so because they spit on the concept of public transit and hate the left that wants mass transportation.

Its not even that. People like McMahon don't even know what are good jobs, they live in some imaginary world, some historic America that never existed. They are turning the American economy around, towards some bizarre imaginary mirage.
People who have never studies math, promoting math. People who have never worked a blue collar job, promoting blue collar jobs. People who don't read, shaping literacy programs. People who send their kids to small private schools, dictating public school policy.

Once a slum lord, always a slum lord. He bankrupt a casino, he is not smart. He doesn't understand the difference between a million and a billion; most successful building developers are working in 10 decimal places, Donald isn't even close to that level.

He dreams of cutting taxes for the rich, and paying for it with tariffs on Canada. It's his only dream. He has no clue how to run an economy. He has been bankrupt several times.

They can't. Middle class oil workers, workers in the gasoline auto-sector will not vote for Democrats. The same goes for many who are contractors; plumbers, electricians, HVAC.

Those working for Amazon might be able to unionize, same with Walmart. Hopefully they can get better pay, and hours. But they are not fighting the same fight as climate activists.

Trump might break teacher unions soon with school vouchers.

Democrats need to start with hyper-local issues, and organize around those.

Some houses don't have windows that open anymore, for 'efficiency' around the HVAC unit.

The boundaries changed, plagues came through. But politically it was mostly stable-ish of sorts ¯(ツ)_/¯ as an economic system

Other system are more stable, Egypt lasted for thousands of years, the Ottoman Empire was fairly stable without growth for a 1000. Capitalism is the the system were part of the profit is reinvested into new machinery 'for efficiency' to undercut competition. Once we do not have competition because there are only 2 or 3 companies (Coke and Pepsi), they fix prices and work to corrupt government to become an Oligarchy. This is why people make the state that we are entering a 'post capital' world.

Good. We need to depopulate by 50%. The earth can't have 8 billion people. There are less than 30,000 polar bears in the whole world.

No they won't, they'll double down on bashing gays, women, immigrants for causing any economic downturn.

Too much of the economy is based around the auto industry, too many social and environmental issues are based around everything structured around cars.

i. Governments throw lots of money toward the car industry, tax cuts for the factories, subsidized wages for the workers.
ii. Owing a car is now becoming more expensive, and you need a new one every 15 years as they don't last long. iii.Car speeds and horse power have now crept up to crazy levels. Beyond any reason of what people need. iv. Car companies are not focused on what people want, safety, instead they keep putting more horse power into cars. v. Massive environmental costs in terms of pollution and sprawl. vi. Oil companies are killing the planet and causing wars.

Almost everything when we talk of the 'real' economy, we mean car factories and oil wells.

Canada should nationalize the railroads.

Nationalize all mines, and mining.

We should build a nation car, a basic 4-cycliner car with AWD capabilities, plug-in-hybrd, regenerative braking, easy to repair with parts always available. Make all the software code and hardware schematics free. Have it as one of our military vehicles for basic transport, make it so that all cab companies have to use it, all Uber drivers, delivery drivers, that's the only car municipalities get to buy for staff, only car Provinces get to buy for staff.

The other issue is, nobody is trying to take on Facebook. Not really anything in the FLOSS community like it.

Trump will come up with something dumber tomorrow, it'll be impossible to keep pleasing him and stay sane. Sooner or latter everyone around Trump falls.