“The solution is going to come from the private sector, and what government needs to do is create the framework within which the private sector can do what it does best, which is allocate capital and innovate and begin to take the framework that’s been created. ... We need to go after this as if we’re really at war.”
We need to go after this as if we’re really at war
We all remember when WarCorp ltd won WW2.
Everything is a war for US politicians and media. They'll drone poverty out of existence instead of doing real policy
Even worse, they will make sure that corporations are always profitable and win in every situation.
Kerry must listen to Citations Needed, because they literally just did an episode about this :surprised-pika:
THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS! YOU FOOL! YOU ABSOLUTE MORON!
Yes but we will
create the framework within which the private sector can do what it does best
read: subsidize the shit out of cleaning up the mess they made so they can profit while they destroy the climate and while they fix it!
Even that seems like utopian fantasy. There's literally no way they'll fix it. Stabilise it in a few key places to create life rafts for the ultra rich maybe.
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Yeah like, EXCUSE ME? This is your fucking climate change guy?
Imagine picking someone with actual expertise in environmental science and policy.
The solution is going to come from the private sector,
Oh God, were fucked. We're so fucked.
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They talked about this on chapo or something recently, I think it's the most succinct way of putting it. There are no political solutions to anything anymore, only technocratic ones.
Cancer? M4A would do so much for people, but Biden is only promising to cure cancer by some miracle treatment that'll somehow be developed in 4/8 years.
Climate Change? Green new deal would be a good start but so would degrowth or any kind of major transition off fossil fuels or massive public transportation investments, but the only solutions offered is somehow some capitalist will save us with geoengineering that is also profitable (somehow).
Homelessness? Decommodifying homes and just letting the homeless live in one of the hundreds of thousands of peopleless houses or building supportive housing would solve it. The only solutions offered are erase zoning and re-enter the regulation of the gilded ages so developers just build even more fucking houses.
Racism? Abolish police, reparations, etc., you know actually do something about it in a material sense. But the only solution to racism offered are pay some consultants to talk to your workforce about sensitivity and buy a shitload of books about racism.
Pandemic? No harsh quarantines, no hard lockdowns, no direct provisioning of goods, no M4A, no guaranteed sick leave. Instead all of our eggs were put into the basket of vaccine development, the pandemic is still here a year later and will possibly be with us forever (just in altered form like the
SpanishKansas Flu of the early 1900s did) never mind the hundreds of thousands of graves that were dug last year just for confirmed cases of covid. There were many more "mystery" pneumonia deaths that were likely just covid but the patient never got a test.Every single issue facing society has political, real, long-lasting solutions. We don't need more technology to fix the problems that face us - we just need political will. But that's not on offer, the only thing that's on offer is hoping silicon valley will save us if we give them enough money.
Technocracy is still only the thin facade thrown over the top.
The market is a religious delusion. Everything good is evidence of the market. Everything bad is evidence of a lack of faith in the market. It's falsifying meaning and patterns where there are none and then assuring yourself that a miracle will come from the chaos.
There is no miracle. Only chaos. And you will drown waiting for one.
Kerry finally acknowledges the need to abolish the state.
No I will not read past the headline.
All the doctors are saying that my lungs are in terrible shape after having smoked three packs a day for decades and that I'm going to die real soon if I keep smoking.
What do you say? Should I quit smoking? Stop being ridiculous, that would inconvenience me in the short term and make my ashtray collection useless. — I'm just going to wait for someone to invent a magical non-carcinogetic cigarette instead.
I’m just going to wait for someone to invent a magical non-carcinogetic cigarette instead.
I mean, those are all the rage nowadays...
Yeah, but just like climate change solutions and ICE alternatives, they were invented in the early 20th century and then covered up. They've also known since 1798 that smoking causes cancer.
It's in the interest of the cigarette companies to keep you alive so you keep buying cigarettes. Therefore, I'm sure the invisible hand will have a solution to your health problems any day now.
for a split second i thought we were witnessing the birth of green anarchist john kerry
Here’s what’s going to happen: we get a revolution going by the mid 2020s - and it will be easy, because there’s nothing holding the US together anymore. In fact, everyone wants me to burn it down, and will cheer on the destruction.
Truly shocking that John Gazillionaire thinks the private sector is the best solution. gasp.
The US relies on oil to dominate the globe, and we will sooner see all life on earth die than to do anything to threaten that. We also don't have an alternative to the oil economy. So it's up to the private sector to invent a miracle that allows us to transition off fossil fuels while keeping us a global superpower.
We're fucked.
