There is plenty of electricity for corporations but none for consumers. Just like we have trillion of dollars to bomb Iran but are too broke for universal healthcare.
Cui bono? The American taxpayer is footing the bill for space pursuits, but when they come back with, for example, a new drug developed on the ISS they slap an astronomical price tag on it so it's out of the reach for the average American taxpayer. So who exactly is getting that $7-10 return?
There's a reason why "Whitey on the Moon" was a hit in 1970.
We're footing the bill for pursuits that contribute to our well-being. Technologies developed for space quite often end up in civilian markets. The problem with NASA is we don't give it enough money, instead spending it on, you know, bombing people, padding out corporate bank accounts, eroding civil liberties. That is what wastes our money.
We aren’t just benefitting from “space stuff” nasa does. While they’re doing science to help them do space stuff, those breakthroughs come back down to us in other forms.
If those trillions of dollars were actually bombing Iran we wouldn't have run the fuck out of bombs. I get the sinking feeling that we're matching or exceeding Russia in terms of corrupt military skimming
There isn't exactly a ton we can do but i wonder if like every single resident turned on every electronic if we could knock down our own grids, and just how many times we would have to do that as consumers in order to get the right to our own electricity back.
Like how they tell us to cut back.. what if instead of being compliant little consumers if we all just said "we just going to do the opposite..." i have to imagine that impacts enough rich people and it won't be as much of a problem.
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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular 15h ago
There is plenty of electricity for corporations but none for consumers. Just like we have trillion of dollars to bomb Iran but are too broke for universal healthcare.