Related: Robert Reich posted earlier today that Tesla paid ZERO taxes on $5 billion in sales (earnings?), so that’s just fucking great.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    58·
    16 小时前

    And we still have to play the guessing game where we try to estimate the number that the government already knows, but won’t divulge to us, like some sort of fucked up psychological game.

    This shit is so fucked. I’m awaiting the collapse.

    • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
      16·
      13 小时前

      This is when daddy marx reels you into his pleasure house by telling you about how he predicted all this shit in 1848 and had advocated for the dictatorship by the proletiariat (the working class is in power, no conflictions between power and politics by allowing lobbyism), capitalism has always been doomed and the reagan bullshit about the trinkle down economics has always been known by econimists as nothing more than a self-contradicting distraction whilst we robbed foreign nations to sustain an unsustainable system.

      • mortn@lemmy.world
        19·
        13 小时前

        “We have a finite environment - the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist”. ~ Sir David Attenborough

        • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
          5·
          13 小时前

          Couldn’t they also be a mathematician? The Pointcarré recurrence theorem is a good example of infinite rate in a fixed dimensional space. Also, that quote really oversimplifies environmental engineering, the ozone layer has been fixed by the kyoto convention because every person with the simplest understanding of the carbon cycle can understand why the earth has been able to sustain ressource consumption for all animals and can still do so for a very long time still, infinitely or not.

          • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            17 分钟前

            Animals don’t grow infinitely. If their population surpasses capacity, they have a mass die-off

            I don’t know why you bring in the ozone layer here. That was not a problem that had anything to do with reaource consumption.

          • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 小时前

            Ozone was fixed because the cost of shifting to a different gas was economically viable for largely Western countries.

            The Montreal protocol was still impressive though as something that many countries could agree on without it becoming political. Ah, simpler times.