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How will normal people be affected if you severely restrict the activities of those 100 companies?

Negligible. Large non corporal entities are structured such the vast majority of any benefit they provide is concentrated in a vanishingly small population and costs distributed over the largest population possible. That is the whole point.

We need to lay all these informations on a large map, so we don't have to speculate. That said, I'm sure most of the western world is in blind oppulence. So much shit is thrown out or spoiled for no reason it's crazy.

>That said, I'm sure most of the western world is in blind oppulence.

Do you want to know how I know you're out of touch?

In France, reports are quoting 30% of edible food thrown away. Is it much better elsewhere ? I suppose not

At least in America, food is basically free. If you are fine with eating the same food over and over again and have time to cook, you can eat for $10 per week in most places. Rent and higher education, on the other hand...

$10 per week? What food are you thinking of?

Beans and rice, bought dry in bulk. It won't be fun, but you'll live, for roughly $10 a week or even less.

That depends on how you do it.

How were normal people affected by putting in carburetors in cars so they didn't spit out lead into the air?

Edit: My bad I meant catalytic converter not carborators (katalysatorer in Danish)

Carburetors have nothing to do with lead emissions. Lead emissions come from lead being added to gas to raise its octane, and hasn't been added for years.

I might be wrong but as far as i know they were added while there were still lead in the gazoline. Anyway it didn't hurt the normal person it helped them because techonology.

The first gasoline engines used carburetors, they weren't added after lead was added.

Sorry i meant catalytic converter (katalysatorer in Danish)

Catalytic converters are ruined by leaded gasoline, hence the switch to unleaded gas.

Yes and the question I was answering was what I think the focus on industry changes rather than asking normal people to change did for those people.

The point is that the car industry moved on just fine.

1. I think this is a fantastic plan. I think that vertically integrated petroleum and coal companies should be forced to cease creating CO2 pollution. This should happen immediately. I am satisfied if nothing is done on the consumer side. \s

2. Carburetors aren't even on the exhaust side of an engine. Most cars don't have them any more (fuel injection), they mix air and fuel before it enters a cyclinder. You must be thinking of a catalytic converter, and that is still incorrect.

3. The only thing that stopped cars from spitting out lead was law and regulation in the US that banned tetraethyl lead additives.

I think you mean catalytic converter? Which don't remove lead but do mitigate NOx/CO/Hydrocarbons and the like

Yup you are right, i confused the words. Thanks for the correction.

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