• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    4 天前

    Capitalism: How much would it cost to fix this?

    Science: A little effort now, and barely an inconvenience after year 3. If businesses made a mild effort it could cost big businesses roughly 5 million this year, 3 million next year, subsidized by taxpayer money, and after that you’d start seeing new avenues of revenu…

    Capitalism: That’s too expensive. Instead let’s spend about 50 million dollars lobbying lawmakers to vote against this then spend another 175 million on propaganda stating it’s all a liberal lie.

    Science: So you’d rather spend close to a quarter of a billion dollars now to ignore a problem that could be solved for less than 10 over 2 years?