This is so beautifully written and really touches on the core issue. So much wealth and power coupled with such small thinking and a very unhealthy mind.
Yes, he could even solve world hunger, or just US hunger - how much to pay for the food of all school kids who get nickeled and dimed for their school lunches? He could even die on Mars.
Or, we could establish a proper wealth tax and make wealth extraction and inequality of such ridiculous proportions less possible.
I know, first we’d have to un-institutionalize legal political corruption which sounds as impossible as changing the laws of physics.
Everyone talks about taxing him. What about not subsidizing him in the first place? Without carbon credits and low emission vehicle credits he'd have gone bankrupt long ago.
Because those are things that we want done. They help kickstart a low-carbon economy, which would otherwise be slowed by costing more than the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure.
He just happened to be the one who best took advantage of it. Which looked awfully smart at the time, especially since he succeeded so well at it. And that makes his bizarrely mercurial, seemingly short-sighted behavior seem so inconsistent.
Yes, he could even solve world hunger, or just US hunger - how much to pay for the food of all school kids who get nickeled and dimed for their school lunches? He could even die on Mars.
Or, we could establish a proper wealth tax and make wealth extraction and inequality of such ridiculous proportions less possible.
I know, first we’d have to un-institutionalize legal political corruption which sounds as impossible as changing the laws of physics.