Yeah, spot on. If you try to do some of the most basic decent stuff for the people around us, like make sure the next generation of developing american brains gets adequate nutrition, the first response from half the country is yelling “BUT WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?”
There are many examples of, and there will be many more, a rich dude complaining that some life-protecting regulation “stifles innovation” or “slows economic growth” so we throw a bunch of people under the bus (probably literally in a few cases) so that a few people with more money than they will ever spend can watch their balance go up by 8% next year instead of 7%. And some of us plebs lucky enough to have a 401k will probably get a whole extra dollar or two.
Yeah, spot on. If you try to do some of the most basic decent stuff for the people around us, like make sure the next generation of developing american brains gets adequate nutrition, the first response from half the country is yelling “BUT WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?”
There are many examples of, and there will be many more, a rich dude complaining that some life-protecting regulation “stifles innovation” or “slows economic growth” so we throw a bunch of people under the bus (probably literally in a few cases) so that a few people with more money than they will ever spend can watch their balance go up by 8% next year instead of 7%. And some of us plebs lucky enough to have a 401k will probably get a whole extra dollar or two.