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peer2paytoday at 11:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

Social policies and a clean environment is what I want


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nsoqmtoday at 12:23 PM

Then vote for it. Seems a growing majority disagree with you now. Maybe those policies haven’t worked well for them.

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jack_trippertoday at 11:39 AM

What social and environmental policies are you currently lacking? Be specific please.

And we all want many thing in life, like for example I would want my bus to work every 5 minutes instead of every 30 minutes, but everything nice in life has a hefty price, and if you make a large part of the economy bankrupt or leave and workers unemployed or broke from rising costs, in exchange for financially unrealistic environmental targets that only a small part of the population can tolerate("let them eat cake"), then that might not sit well with a large part of the democratic voting population who has to bare the brunt of your wishes.

A balance has to be found between what's nice and desirable and what's economically feasible without causing economic hardship on others, otherwise something breaks and you get rising extremism and .

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