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If everyone had a private jet with jet fuel subsidized by the government it would also be bad for humanity. It’s currently tolerated as a luxury only for the ri
by mattnewton 5y ago
If everyone had a private jet with jet fuel subsidized by the government it would also be bad for humanity. It’s currently tolerated as a luxury only for the rich. As an argument for subsidizing something, that doesn’t resonate with me by itself.
We subsidize the meat industry directly, and indirectly by not pricing in negative externalities like it’s carbon expenditure.
- paganel 5y agoEquating eating meat to owning a private jet won't get the point pretty well to the masses.
- mattnewton 5y agoThat’s true but I don’t know of any pitch that would convince “the masses”. It’s easier to argue why someone should not do more of something they aren’t already doing, rather than stop doing something they like and have been doing for generations. But maybe we can still make a dent by increasing the price to include negative externalities like carbon emissions, or at least ending subsidies for meat so substitutes might be able to compete better.