Rohan Grey (II)
Paying for the #GreenNewDeal#Thread 10
— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Transforming Investment, pt. 3
Rohan Grey @rohangrey
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We either need to actually plan together, or we need to somehow hope that some spontaneous market force is going to do what we need to do. Otherwise we're all screwed. pic.twitter.com/XquLW21UB9
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Name a single private investment more important than the public project of saving the planet. Go on; I'll wait. #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/igiPkIEi6i
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
You need to put this shit in people's faces. pic.twitter.com/Ws3w24vaoh
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Commercial banks are a state-subsidized system. But do those entities channel credit and purchasing power in productive ways? pic.twitter.com/BQLVFDxJtr
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
They knew in the 1940s and '50s that credit policy and investment policy was where the game was at, when it comes to the balance between the public and private sector. pic.twitter.com/RjqPDGNvxz
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
If we have to squeeze to provide basic public services and a #GreenNewDeal, then we are going to squeeze the less important things first: e.g. another golf course; e.g. wealth >$1M. Not potable water, public schools, or workers making $50k/year! pic.twitter.com/sxj5iZDRLn
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
If it's worth spending, it's worth spending; it's not worth lending. pic.twitter.com/ZmknEnL5bq
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Bad take: well, yeah, we could be a little bit nicer, but we'd lose a little bit of money. pic.twitter.com/HqOwWD50vz
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Another bad take: if we can just prove that actually most of it pays for itself, then everything's gonna be great! pic.twitter.com/zkMp5iqIeR
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
Public patents are the kind of thing that we should demand as a condition of investing in private actors at all. pic.twitter.com/UBLNcWyqze
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
There's no point in having a just transition to an economy that's still unjust. And unjust in ways that could be the whole ball game. pic.twitter.com/8NjD6JElEU
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— Paying for the Green New Deal (@payforgnd) January 24, 2020
For the full video: https://t.co/OkD4LNE18J
Transforming Investment, pt. 3
by Rohan Grey @rohangrey
start time: 8h:21m
Previous threads in this series: https://t.co/zS0wEljJfK