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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Not forcing the proletariat to use a little less.
The believers think that the answer to saving the world lies in big government forcing change at the bottom.
That's how a fascist or communist accomplishes things and it usually never works.
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The premise of R. B. Fuller's Design Science Revolution was that tearing down the top always fails, but engineered solutions can raise the standard of living for all so nobody has to lose. The richest person on the planet didn't have a computer in their pocket a hundred years ago, now everybody does.
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Originally Posted by aerohead
I did this voluntarily in 1974 and it's paid me tax-free dividends ever since.
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What I did was about housing. Built this on the Oregon coast in 1980:
Did I mention that when the wind blew 100mph, it didn't whistle or moan? Quiet as a Mercedes at 100mph.
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Ha!
zerohedge.com:Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Slams Musk And Tesla For Not Providing A "Return On Investment" To Taxpayers
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"When we as a public choose to invest in new technologies, we deserve a return on that investment" she said.
She continued: "For far too long, we gave money to Tesla, we gave money to a ton of people and we got no return on our investment that the public made in creating technologies, and it’s about time we get our due because it’s the public that funded and financed a lot of innovative technologies." One wonders what she would say about Solyndra, assuming she has even heard of the "revolutionary" and now defunct company.
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