Climate Apocalypse

I mean, governments can do good things.

Like taxing the fuck out of corporations.

What about putting that money toward retaining walls/birms, carving out some overflow pathways for the next time the river floods?

Throwing money at local co-ops, to kick start a more equitable, local, and representative economic system, or at least found some alternatives to the existing cartels?

The New Deal was overall a pretty good idea, in comparison to... not doing it.

The state very, very often doesn't do good things because capitalist democracy is fundamentally flawed and exploitable, but it just irks me that what is probably the policy equivalent of a last dying breath of this doomed town of 10,000... is to pay off old timers, who will then cycle that money right back into the immensely corrupt healthcare system.

Lets be real: Probably not many young people in a dying town with no jobs, they probably all left to find work and don't really care to hear about entirely predictable bad things happening, that they gave up warning their parents about half a decade ago.

There's not gonna be a 'great wealth transfer' of inheritance from boomers to their kids and grandkids, 90% of it will go to paying off HELOCs and geriatric daycare, basically because so many boomers are so stubborn, priveleged, and dismissive, that they've driven away their children in numbers never before seen in US history.

Corpos always get their money back, with interest, one way or another.