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Unsugarized_Foo
07/22/21 8:32:00 PM
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You could run/fund the government for 9 months (4.6 trillion value over a 6 trillion budget)

Kinda depressing honestly

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EndOfDiscOne
07/22/21 8:33:07 PM
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Enough to end world hunger

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Xethuminra
07/22/21 8:34:30 PM
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States Rights > pick one
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WilliamPorygon
07/22/21 8:34:36 PM
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Yeah, but why would you

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pure_temper
07/22/21 8:35:04 PM
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EndOfDiscOne posted...
Enough to end world hunger

it's not a funding problem

it's a logistics problem

that amount of money is a rounding error in the decades ahead for the scale of revenue of the federal government, if it was a money problem we could just throw mountains of money at the problem. it's really just a problem of the technology needing massive investments over time so we can grow more food where people are

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/

stuff like this, basically. it'll solve the problem, unlimited food that is so plentiful it might as well be free and will probably actually end up free because of the massive savings to our tax revenue from spending less on healthcare in the long run when everyone's living longer (fingerscrossed)

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Unsugarized_Foo
07/22/21 8:49:59 PM
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Maybe they can drop seeds from space

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Nukazie
07/22/21 8:53:39 PM
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what if i just take the money and spend them for myself

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Xethuminra
07/22/21 11:16:12 PM
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Nukazie posted...
what if i just take the money and spend them for myself
Dont forget to tell the government youre willing to ration the funds to them on the basis of good behavior

and then lock that option behind tons of paperwork & tax the hell out of them until theyre disheartened
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