“But how will you pay for it?” Is always always always a statement of priority, not of capability.
Markets exist to benefit people, and should be permitted to exist only to the extent that they do so, and should be immediately scrutinized, and ruthlessly corrected, the moment they even momentarily attempt to reverse that dynamic.
it’s a society that believes that we have no connection to one another, and that life must be earned, and that the way you earn it is by being profitable.
Or to free sick people from financial terror.
Or for crumbling infrastructure.
Or to preserve a livable planet.
But we can piss away $1.5 trillion to make the stock market ticker heave listlessly up 1000 points for about an hour