I feel like our domestic energy use is truly idiotic, we could cut out half the power demand pretty readily, but industry will still need mass energy like nuclear or hydro, though damaging riverine system irritates me

I try to vote for whatever screws over big corporations the most

as long as they import H1Bs, they're my enemies

Jacob we NazBol buddies?

hell ya

We need more Henry Fords to save America

Brb gonna go make a ketchup samich with salt on it

B&R

I don’t import H1s, but I’ll send you guys a tax bill next time it hits me

Thanks you!

@metasophocles You have industry captains, they just mostly all work for the enemy

Regretfully 😦

Musk is possibly somewhat our guy. Or maybe just high.

@Alexander Pechorin How big is your company?

Henry Ford was the original /our/ guy

Well, I perhaps shouldn’t give an exact figure, but we do well into 8 figures

And have tens of million in real estate and inventory assets.

Over 100 employees, that will likely double next year.

wow

oh wow

Well I hope you're having kids. You can afford to and can actually get a wife in current year

7 at least. I just got engaged to a perfect woman.

I had a small family growing up and that always bothered me.

There was an initiative in Washington that would create a new tax on corporations, but the biggest ones would be exempt. These guys are really slimy and try everything to screw over good guys like you.

yes ^ it’s awful. I agree.

It exempt like the 5 biggest or something

very weird

I don’t deny corporatism exists. It’s evil. I just disagree on the solution.

Because unfortunately many attempts to fix that screw us over.

I mean, to be fair, that wasn't really an example of capitalism

Though it is an example of how Amazon and the like are pretty universally evil

Amazon has made it difficult for us because their subsidized free shipping changes consumer behavior.

Now the expectations have totally changed unnaturally.

That seems kind of inevitable when we let corporations get too large

That they'll buy themselves political power

Perhaps. Perhaps not. This is one of the better original essays on unintended consequences of law though and it should inform attempts to regulate: bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

Thanks

@metasophocles I know Henry Ford wanted the US to us Ethanol instead of petroleum. We'd have the fuel we need from corn.

It takes more ethanol to go the same distance, but it works pretty well.

oh God