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Fair point. I suppose I meant no Americans are allowed to lose money. I am not an expert but what springs to mind (for me) is the oil/gas industry. If the cost
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
Fair point. I suppose I meant no Americans are allowed to lose money. I am not an expert but what springs to mind (for me) is the oil/gas industry. If the cost of fuel increases for any reason that's it- your next election will not go well. So we usually end up keeping subsidies, tax cuts, etc. but adding more incentives to something else such as green energy- or at least it seems that way. You can't take a thumb off of the scale but you can always add more thumbs. Because nobody is allowed to lose money.
- blooalien 3y agoNo filthy rich people are allowed to lose money. The rest of us are expendable.
- ben_w 3y agoEven then, Musk is allowed to bankrupt Twitter, Trump is allowed to be fined half a billion or whatever it was, and Epstein died in prison. Big Oil was, past-tense, considered identical with national interest. Now, even though they're still useful, that value is not at anything close to the same level, and it's adapt-or-disappear time for all of them.