srinath
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I'll try to answer some of these. Return questions on some others.
Free Public college - You mean community college ? No one is actually complaining about that and we don't even ask for it to be free, though for some people it can help, the issues are they don't do 4 year, and they're generally considered as crap, mainly because some of them are - now, my town has a good one. However, the perspective of them being crap causes many to avoid it. Not me, I'm pushing my son for it. BTW this is how all colleges in India used to be, students pay for their education, pretty much out of pocket no loans, no financing, no fake fees for 1 vs another who gets all these "grants". You pay for it in full, there are more $$$ and less $ colleges, sometimes not even varying in their education quality.
Why did I immigrate here - Plain and simple, I got cheated back in 1991. I got a H1 visa to do manual factory labor, and they even shafted me on the pay. It was a year before I was able to get out from under it, by then I had a car, some debts, some assets. Essentially it was getting irreversible. I lost a lot of ground trying to get my life back on track in India, and it was a break even getting it back together in the US. However 10 yrs on I was still in a mode to return, but soon enough with the baby etc it was where I had to decide - OK screw it, I'm here.
Why is amazon paying no taxes and hoarding $$$. Yes, they're crooks, and worse yet - they are also hiring a lot of people on H1, sub contracting a lot from other crooked companies and essentially, hitting that will not only throw that $$$ back into society here, it will also prevent a lot of "remittances" that devalue our currency, and reduce the effects of their pile of cash hidden overseas. Yea tax em at 80% and kill the H1 abuse in their name. Repeat with google, apple, facebook, etc etc.
I think you're missing the ppint on all this alternative energy. All that crap will cut emissions in 30%, 50%. 90% of my energy use is driving to work and heating my house. I bring in my brother from India and automatically he uses 10-30X what he did in India. Alternative this and that needs a crap ton of innovation and scaling up and this and that. Legislation is easy and cheap, if not free. Stop people from moving here. Stop people from commuting when they don't have to. Nearly 90% of jobs can be done remote, and when that is legislated, we will see a full on unwind of the entire "commute based" sector of the economy. We need 12 gas stations at every highway exit ? not if only 10% of people are on the road. Bridges crumbling ? well let em fall, take 90% of people off the road and see if they cant find a different route. The last 5 times I went to the "teller" to draw $$$ the teller was remote. Only problem was, he had to commute because he was in Jacksonville and had to physically drive to office. He really could have done that sitting at home. Innovate and scale up to make that 10% that's left over to 1%. Yea that can take time. But 90% is available now. Rather 80%, cos I am not living without heat. But prevent people from moving to the cold countries, and you save 90%.
I dont think my view is simplistic, but this is the low hanging fruit, scrape up that and the fruit that's already fallen. Then move on to harder to reach ones.
Cool. Srinath.
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