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Now factor in the effects of climate change on many communities over the next decades. Maintaining our infrastructure i.e. lifestyle is going to be much much more expensive.


Minor correction: maintaining the lifestyle of billionaire coastal developers and their clientele will be much much more expensive. The poors will continue to be encouraged to eat shit and die as per usual.


Yes, typically poor people’s contribution to the economy isn’t as great individually. Groundbreaking stuff.


The cute thing there being they outnumber the big fish by something like 400,000 to 1 in the US and without them there is literally no economy and no billionaire class.


Your take is as profound as claiming there’s no life without oxygen, but it serves very little actual utility in observing the world.




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