“Will cost America”
Haha no. It will not cost working class people a cent. Which is most of America.
Well you know capitalism. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
When corporate is losing money it’s “All of us in America lost 700 million in productivity”
But when profits are higher than ever before it’s “Sorry there’s no bonus this year, we’re giving our CEO a 50 million dollar parachute. We know you worked hard so here’s a thank you card and a candy bar”
Certainly cost me a pretty penny to travel to see it. But that’s not the narrative NBC is looking for
Truly sad part? The tourism benefit from it was estimated at 6$ billion… but NBC doesn’t want that.
Consumer money doesn’t matter where it gets spent. It stays in the economy pretty much no matter what.
The benefit of tourism to the (destination) economy is that outside money is coming in. That’s it.
If the eclipse lost 700 million dollars, imagine what we can do if we did a general strike. The oligarchy would shit themselves.
Sorry, Trump beat you to that idea.
https://time.com/6964573/trump-bizarre-solar-eclipse-campaign-ad/
Now do the math for everyone eating Taco Bell just before their shift
So, over 300 million people enjoying a once in a lifetime natural event cost “the economy” about as much money as a typical CEO steals in a day?
Sounds like misdirected anger.
It’s like we forgot why we have an economy in the first place. Wasn’t it to enjoy our lives in this planet.
No only for the select few, the rest of us are serfs. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the billionaires started calling themselves Ramesses XXVI or something.
It’s the “avocado toast” people all over again. “Why are you enjoying anything in your life right now when you could be waiting to enjoy things in the last 10-20 years of your life (if you live that long)?”
(You’d better find a new place to live if you plan to outstay your welcome by that much though; this one won’t be habitable)
Nope. Loot pillage and exploit. When we started this shit we had chattel slavery and proper empires.sigh.
Rape kill kill kill rape, in that order. Can’t believe the rubes fell for that prosperity bullshit.
We only missed starting with no slavery by a single vote. I’m not even joking. Georgia and Carolina caused the biggest and most drawn out argument of The Continental Congress, and only managed to win by a single vote. The other 11 colonies were in favor of outlawing slavery from the start, though their stance on the natives was still crap.
Way less than 300 million. The entirety of the West Coast had 50% occlusion or less, and as XKCD pointed out last week, that isn’t even noticable.
I’m only pointing this out to point out that they are bitching about a fraction of the country, and less than a percent of the so called economy.
and so, spent money to travel and presumably stay someplace and eat food which actually might be a net gain to the economy given (we assume) the days off work were PTO time that would have been taken anyway?
