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0 sats \ 19 replies \ @88b0c423eb 31 Oct \ on: Economics of Aviation Climate Change: We All Gave Up (Financial Times) econ
bring back 1200km/h airplanes and also the concorde
You can't build them without rare earths and rare earths are not supplied by free markets.
Free market mechanisms fail to provide you with rare earths.
Only with massive government subsidies can you possibly regain rare earths supply chains.
Libertarian dogma has been once again exposed to be naive dumbass bullshit.
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Hello Stalin
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Hello dumbass incapable of responding to the facts and issues with a credible reasoned retort.
Because your dumbass Libertarian ideology cannot provide one.
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Haha we need govt subsidies, free market bad
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Correct- in the case of rare earths the Libertarian dogma of 'free markets fixes everything' is exposed as naive and dangerous bullshit.
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It's like saying we need subsides to go the moon or to mars. If you can't do something without subsidies(just don't do it), without free exchange with individuals that means that you need to take money by force from other people using the state, that's what subsidies are. If you are in favor of that you're a bad person just like any other socialist, then you're no different from stalin.
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Ok so you oppose subsidies for rare earths supply chains independent of China.
Thus you advocate the west becoming hostage to China.
Great result from your irrational Libertarian dogma!
Become a vassal slave to China.
The reality is of course that many strategic investments can only be made by the collective capacity of the nation state - investments such as space programs and rare earths supply chains which in turn deliver scientific discoveries, technologies and materials essential to having a competitive modern economy.
Only governments have both the mandate, capacity and incentive to make such investments which do not deliver immediate gains to the investor but do deliver huge and essential strategic advantages to the nation that makes them.
Dumbass Libertarian ideology ignores these realities.
Thus you dumbly stumble into subservience to China.
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We need to rob other people otherwise we become a vassal slave to China lol
Amen
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lol
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