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1. Upper Class / rich people would be generally more affected, as they rely on a lot more nice-to-haves like pools, cars, and air-cons. I'm middle class and I o

1. Upper Class / rich people would be generally more affected, as they rely on a lot more nice-to-haves like pools, cars, and air-cons. I'm middle class and I only just got these things, I can very easily do without them, like I had in the past. 2. Rich people generally don't get affected by much, because they have money to compensate and make things better for them. It sounds like you're gonna want to drag down the upper class as well so they will have shared misery.

coldtea 3y ago
Then ain't losing their pools, cars, and air-cons. A downright ban on cars or air-cons is unlikely (ban or air-cons will mean a death sentence for hundreds of thousands during heat waves), and a ban on cars will mean major disruption, especially as US cities and jobs aren't public transport friendly. And there will be various ways to work around it for the upper class, e.g. get an electric luxury car which would be allowed, install big-ass solar panels, and so on. At worst the cost for having them, from 1%-0.001% of their income, will jump to 2%-0.002%. For a working class person, it would be a much larger percentage, meaning air-con and car will be a bigger burdern, starting to get comparable to rent. And the upper class/rich have other tricks like exceptions for business use (e.g. register their house an office for their personal business or owned by the company), or merely their pals voting in their favour (e.g. "private jets are not currently subject to carbon tax in the majority of European countries due to exemptions from the EU emissions trading system"). If needs be, they'll just pay the carbon offset too, which will be another insignificant cost compared to their income.