The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
A lot of this is reductionist and kind of generalizing. Really depends on what we’re talking about. There are ways to punish companies and hit them where it hurts, money, for instance. There are ways to lobby Congress. I’m just saying there’s a framework for being strategic about these things, and distilling it down to violent uprising is just lacking any nuance any of these types of conversations actually deserve.
There are ways, but they’re even less effective and impractical than they were when companies weren’t all merged together and government wasn’t flooded with lobbyist dollars. Now industries are dominated by 2-3 major players who collude on prices through “algorithms” and the government is openly for sale to the top bidder. Money completely rules all, guess who has more money. That’s the only thing that talks “peacefully” now.
A lot of this is reductionist and kind of generalizing. Really depends on what we’re talking about. There are ways to punish companies and hit them where it hurts, money, for instance. There are ways to lobby Congress. I’m just saying there’s a framework for being strategic about these things, and distilling it down to violent uprising is just lacking any nuance any of these types of conversations actually deserve.
There are ways, but they’re even less effective and impractical than they were when companies weren’t all merged together and government wasn’t flooded with lobbyist dollars. Now industries are dominated by 2-3 major players who collude on prices through “algorithms” and the government is openly for sale to the top bidder. Money completely rules all, guess who has more money. That’s the only thing that talks “peacefully” now.