It will tickle down eventually. Just give it a few centuries or at least until I'm not responsible anymore
Sure thing, Mr Reagan, Sir!
Can't wait for the golden shower 🤤
It's really bad here. Not ONLY do we do this, but we also subsidize oil like it's going out of style. Oh wait. It is.
We just can't quit that abusive oily dick, though. In fact we keep waiting by the phone hoping they will call us back.
Meanwhile, inflation is ridiculous, people can't afford houses or groceries.
But if prices don't go up, the profits won't increase! Why doesn't anybody think of the poor shareholders, trying to barely eke out an income from their holdings?
You'd like to think that oil is going out of style. It's not. All of the focus is currently on the automotive sector.
I will first say that despite commitments and developments in the right direction from the industry, the commitment to gas and diesel extends a minimum of another decade. It's a combination of slow-walking changes and taking advantage of lack of replacements for current sectors of transportation, most notably being long-distance transportation.
And that's not to mention all of the other industries that use petroleum or derivatives thereof.
I wish I could agree that oil is going out of style, but it's not. There is ongoing work to offer alternatives, but oil is going to ride strong until the end. Then it'll be someone else's problem. Just like everything else.
Potentially unpopular opinion: This analogy implies that the impoverished are a threat to politicians and rich people, yet sadly I feel like today's society will/would never fight back. We have a major apathy problem among younger millennials and younger gens I've noticed.
It doesn’t matter if the opinion is popular or not, because it is simply untrue.
“According to the Census Bureau, voter turnout in the off-year 2018 election was the highest in four decades. Driving that record engagement in part was a near-doubling in participation from voters aged 18-29. Voting among this cohort increased by 79 percent, with younger voters responsible for 36 percent of votes cast (up from 20 percent in the previous election).”
“Members of Gen Z are more racially and ethnically diverse than any previous generation, and they are on track to be the most well-educated generation yet.”
“ Millennials are more racially diverse, more tuned in to the power of networks and systems and more socially progressive than either Gen X or baby boomers on nearly every available metric. They tend to favor government-run health care, student debt relief, marijuana legalization and criminal-justice reform, and they demand urgent government action on climate change.”
https://time.com/5770140/millennials-change-american-politics/
It is a education problem imo. Keeping masses in check is very easy if they lack critical thinking and have a tv in every room.
Like in germany where a state made tax cuts but mostly the rich people will Profit from it.
The tornado is about to destroy the politicians and rich people's homes .... but dissipates at the last moment.
Politicians and rich people for the 200th time .... Huh, wow ... that was close ... sips drink and goes back in their house
no successful revolution ever happened on the first attempt. Though in western europe we got 200 years of failure wtf is wrong with us.
Imagine not being taxed half your salary in exchange for good social services and amazing public transport infrastructure.
I am German.
I'm going to be very unpopular but I have lived in "third world" countries and people have a better quality of life there. The poor deal with violence indeed, but so do americans, and I have never seen anyone dying from not afording insulin or having to work for 1 dolar an hour. Free health care and labour laws can improve poor peoples lifes a lot. Also, American POC live in a third world country.
They still have to pay way more than the others, a tax cut just means they dont have to pay as much more as before, still more (percantage-wise even) than you and me.
In the real world, American billionaires pay lower effective tax rate than many of its working people https://www.cp24.com/world/american-billionaires-pay-lower-effective-tax-rate-than-many-of-its-working-people-propublica-investigation-1.5461318
