re: Andrew Yang wants Thorium Reactors by 2027

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public intellectuals — Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein. They are highly-educated, do extensive research, and publish in fact-checked publications like...The New York Times.

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Pure idiocy right there.

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Yang is the most visionary candidate for sure

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Here's one of his visionary ideas.

Picture shows a hand with 10 100 dollar bills in it. Just think...Andy will give you that every single month of the rest of your life!


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This is what $1,000 looks like. Imagine getting it once a month. We can make the #FreedomDividend real for every American.

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Yes. This isn't necessarily a technological hurdle so much as a political one.

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Where is it and how is it working?

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I think we could do better than India

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Why is that?

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Why is that?

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Because we're more educated and technologically advanced than India? We're capable of achieving much more if we focused on this.

It appears you have 0 desire to contribute anything here and just want to be completely useless.

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Electing Trump led to the economic recovery. . .there, I said it.

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FTFY

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One has tangible value and the others are nonsense

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Small thinker. All we need is more government funding. They are going to spend it anyway, right?

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We spend roughly 7 billion a year on green energy subsidies

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So we spend about ~$1.3-sh trillion on electricity generation. While $7B sounds like a lot... it works out to about 0.5% of the total electricity market. No one's decommissioning perfectly operating power plants for that.

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Completely eliminate that over a 10 year period and divert a portion of those funds to investing in nuclear infrastructure and you get a much better return on investment.

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You still haven't explained how you get any "return on investment" by creating more supply of an already oversupplied commodity.

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This is what $1,000 looks like. Imagine getting it once a month. We can make the #FreedomDividend real for every American. 

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The idea actually has merit if you look at it more. I'm not saying everyone should agree with UBI, but there are a lot of conservative and capitalist benefits.

I see it almost as a check on capitalism, like anti-trust laws, to make sure a larger portion of the population has real purchasing power. I think the growing wealth gap, if it continues to expand, can negatively impact how our markets can function. (This doesnt take into account the changing value in our economy relative to technology, data, etc., which will also impact our economy in ways we cant predict).

Its not a punitive tax on wealth or advancement and I think can be very popular and feasible. A lot of argument goes into the thought that other people will use the money irresponsibly, but I think most would use it to improve their lives and in terms of effective impact of the dollar cost, it would be far superior to most govt endeavors.

ETA: He has a lot of really good ideas on other issues as well. The freedom dividend isnt even the main reason I support him, I'm still uncertain if it would have the impact he sees. He seems to be someone who truly wants to bring the country together, which I think we really need.