David August ❌👑
noplasticshower@davidaugust all true for less than 6,000,000 people
Arthur van der Harg@noplasticshower @davidaugust If it’s feasible with 6M people, then it should be much more doable with over 60 times as many.
@[email protected] @davidaugust I wish that were true. I love Norway and have a great deal of respect for that approach. But you guys seem to have no sense of just how big and how disparate the US is.
For example, I live in the DC metro area which has more people in it than Norway and overlaps physically with the tips of two states and a District with different laws and different (sometimes nonexistent) representation.
California, about 20 states west is the same area as Norway with the 6.6 times more people.
@noplasticshower @davidaugust Then your argument should not be “for 6M people”, but “sorry, we chose a system of government that puts individual well and woe before collective action”. It’s not that you couldn’t do this in California or even in the entire US. The risks would be lower than for Norway. But it’s just that Americans are OK with paying for a stretch of road that they themselves drive on, but not for one that their neighbour drives on. That is what corporations exploit.
@ArtHarg @davidaugust that is my argument. Bye bye.