Dude, the pipeline was fucked. Sorry, but at the end of the day we need to remember that money, jobs, the exchange economy aren't REAL. They're just the system we use, and some day will come to an end. The environment, however, is here to stay, and we need to treat it with respect. If that means sacrificing a few jobs, so be it. We shouldn't attempt to preserve a status quo that is so flagrantly inefficient, anyway; we throw away 50% of all food purchased in this nation, and yet the government hands shit out? Why not begin localized consensus-based reallocation of waste? Because we've been stripped of the realization that we CAN work together sans top-down regimes. Also, taxing the rich doesn't matter. During times that taxing the rich is in vogue with the current administration, the true elites simply pay themselves $100,000 instead of the usual $6 million, and place money in clandestine accounts in the Cayman Islands, Panama, Switz, etc. They'll always dodge the shit and go elsewhere, so the legislation on the matter doesn't actually affect a damn thing. Even corporate taxes don't matter; simply open an overseas subsidiary in Costa Rica or another lax-tax nation, and allow the brunt of the business to be done through this channel, rather than the US-based one.
Ironically, taxing brackets are the one thing that really make Democrats and Republicans "different"; one says tax the rich, the other says don't, and aside from these things, the two parties are two sides of the same coin. Ultimately, they're all corporate lapdogs.
It's looking like jobs will matter less and less in the future; the ones doing the best for themselves will have adopted a non-participatory stance on the whole shitshow. Those of us out there consuming the trimmings, growing, building, and forging our lives from the odd cracks of a shattered system will be the ones flourishing as the rest run the treadmill towards dead ideals. Laughing straight to the squat.
