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

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[–] Pee_comes_from_the_balls@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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, capitalism has always been doomed and the reagan bullshit about the trinkle down economics is why there is such a resurfacing advocacy for the leftist doctrines.

[–] mortn@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"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

[–] Pee_comes_from_the_balls@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 53 minutes ago

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.

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

IMHO mathematicians go into the madman category.