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  Only since the 70’s! What’s the big deal?? /smh
context: Don't worry, economist will count the massive wealth we spend cleaning it up tomorrow as GDP and pretend it makes a positive sum so it's really a good thing.
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  Cigarettes' aren't a negative economic sum, we get to spend billions treating the illness and death they cause.  See, positive sum.
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  If you just ignore everything but the arbitrary dollars values, everything is a positive sum. >
  
  I know this is going to sound like a crazy communist idea to some, but...
  What we should do is collectively join together as citizens and assign representatives who would create and pass laws that would protect us and stop those who harm our collective environment.
  Cuz the system we have now, just ain't workin'. >
  
  Money corrupts.  Absolute money corrupts absolutely. >
  
  As intended.
  Such policies hearken back to slavery (whether they realize it or not) in which legality is conflated deliberately with correctness… >
  
  They grease the wheels…literally.