Comment by fogzen
20 days ago
It's incredibly sad and depressing. We could be building green energy, parks, public transit, education, healthcare.
20 days ago
It's incredibly sad and depressing. We could be building green energy, parks, public transit, education, healthcare.
We could, but perhaps people want AI data centers more than one more month of healthcare spending. Though it’s a tough thing choosing between 3.5 rail lines between SF and LA and LLMs.
The thing is that is is not the 'people' who decide these things. Its the uber rich, who prefer investing to get uber richer (although I am not sure how will that work in this case) to investing in improving the health of the plebs.
> building green energy
Fun fact, we have already spent about $10T on renewables and it still provides a very tiny amount of global energy. Learn about why before complaining about it in public. While you are at it, perhaps learn why health insurance is so expensive while also increasing the cost of healthcare. In many matters of public policy, lack of money isn't the problem. Its ignorance of what makes good policy that is missing and that isn't fixed by throwing money at problems.