It's broken by design. AKA regulatory capture by business. Ever since America made corruption (paying money to politicians) legal it's just been downhill. Enjoy!
Regulatory capture has nothing to do with corruption. Regulatory capture is when businesses benefit from complex regulation because the competitive moat that the regulation gives them is more valuable than the cost (so high that only huge companies can afford it) to comply. Large businesses like moats and regulators like to regulate. No coordination required. Actual corruption, at least in the US, is much less common.
So, for $4.3 trillion dollars / year we can turn the 43 billion tonnes of CO2 we emit per year into oxygen and carbon crust. Which is twice the annual revenue for the global oil industry.
Well, don’t forget the cost to concentrate CO2 from 440 ppm in the atmosphere to 10^6 ppm. The current cost of direct air capture that I’ve seen is about $600-$1000/ton (via Climeworks).
Capturing CO2 from flue gas at power plants should be a good bit cheaper, but I think it’s still significant.
That is assuming it takes less than a year to convert all that amount. At the given rate of .1 liter/minute, you'd need a lot of those installations or quite the scale-up.
That would make it pretty feasible. A 25% reduction in consumption (if the activity were purely subtractive from the economy, which it probably wouldn't be) is manageable.
>>You seem to think that every highly developed country is insane (other than the US)...
You are correct I do. Time will prove me right as well given that most of those nations have very real and every systemic issues with their healthcare system that are pushed under the rug and never talked about because it goes against the narrative that Government run healthcare is best thing ever
What are these issues? Their outcomes are better than ours, and they pay less per person.
The UK has had nationalized health care for 70 years. Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Finland are not far behind (50+ years for each of those).
If these problems you're describing were caused by nationalization, wouldn't we have seen them already? 50-70 years is a remarkably long time for a national social program to run without running into any fatal issues.
Not quite. It's a claim on a distributed processing infrastructure. Where every node processes every instruction. So not worthless. But not very efficient.
Very inefficient things tend towards worthlessness. For instance, I could open a business where u send me source code via mail and I will compile and run it for you and fax you the output... my business would effectively be worthless, unless I convince some gullible people that I’m revolutionizing the computer industry, in which case there may be some temporary positive worth to my company’s stock...
Every country does, it is just the case that in most of them you do not vote on the people who set curriculum standards directly. Who decided what would be in your history textbook and how it would be presented? I can promise you that some politician is at the top of that food chain. In some ways the UK is far worse because it is carefully hidden behind layers of ossified class hierarchy and centuries of a toxic mix of arrogance and prejudice.
This sounds very strange to me too, but I assume that in other countries history teachers also have to follow a curriculum given to them by some central authority, no?
This is very much a state-by-state issue. Of note, however, because Texas is so large and orders so many textbooks, and because publishers don't want to customize their titles for all 50 states, the Texas version winds up elsewhere. And in Texas, successful candidates for the state Board of Education are often right-wing ideologues.
It's really no problem to do this. We're using a variation on this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/158400/etc-shadow-h.... The output of crypt (where the input is an email address) is pretty useless if we did suffer a data breach. They'd have to hash every known email address with that salt in order to figure out who had declined an invite from us.
I took a training and became certified as a Community Health Worker, which is who you would put in place between the hospital, community resources, and the person needing them. Hospitals are slowly learning to partner with agencies with CHWs or hire their own, because resolving the causes of health problems due to the imperfections of society/economy/etc is indeed more efficient and cheaper in the long run than repetitively treating the symptoms. I was passionate during the training, but can't see myself actually settling for the typical $30k salary. Given this reality, most CHWs do it because of passion and have other roles/duties that increase their salary to something actually liveable.
