That example is old, overused, and rarely true. For example: How many old filament lightbulbs do you see on the market today?

Many cures have made a lot of money in medicine. Iron lungs used to be expensive to maintain, but vaccines made them unnecessary.

There is plenty of fast and lasting profit in actually curing diseases. The demand for cures is enormous, so successful cures become some of the most valuable medical products ever created.

Examples from medical history where cures were profitable: 1) polio vaccine, 2) hepatitis c antiviral, 3) small pox vaccine, 4) antibiotics, and 5) H. pylori cure for stomach ulcers.

You forget capitalism is about making money first and foremost. Ask your self if there’s money in a cure for anyone in the market.

Im open to hearing your argument.

You opened by insulting me instead of addressing my point, which says more about your argument than mine.

Claiming solar is automatically cheaper ignores system level costs. Wind and solar need storage, backup, and major grid upgrades, and those costs are still high. That is why renewables depend on large subsidies and mandates, just as fossil fuels have historically.

If solar were truly cheaper in a complete sense, companies would switch on their own because profit is a powerful incentive. The fact that adoption still relies on policy pressure shows the picture is more complicated than the simple claim that fossil fuels only survive through inertia.

Sigh, all I see is panacea thinking…I want dank memes.

But here’s some reality for you that’ll destroy my karma.

The market naturally drives energy toward the lowest price because buyers choose the cheapest reliable option and producers must compete. Inefficient sources fade while the most cost effective ones grow. This happens automatically through supply and demand.

Many green technologies, depend on heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs. They promise clean and limitless power, but the real costs of materials, storage, and maintenance make them far more expensive than they seem. This makes them feel less like practical solutions and more like a comforting promise being sold as a cure for everything.

If your energy company could create very cheap energy it would.

Court room justice over mob justice any day.

Just remember more blood has been shed in wars under the shouts of “justice” or “god”…than all other spoken reasons combined. Very dangerous concepts.

You’re right, and I appreciate your deep emotional investment in my contraction.

Ty for that context and counterpoint.

But ill add that he then paid us back w/the insufferable “i like pretty girls” Song.

Im saying its weaponized discomfort to not like a tourist because they wearing a hoodie, shoes and shorts. Service staff is there to make money and serve, not shame people for their dress.

Also, I love you. Let’s run away together.

And just to reiterate a little more clearly, my whole point is your feelings are on you. I am responsible for my actions and words.

If shame was that valuable, fox news would have had us doing their dirty work long ago.

Weaponizing discomfort is toxic because it uses confusion and shame as a form of control. It makes someone feel small and off balance instead of safe and understood, turning communication into emotional pressure rather than clarity.

Shame is as old as time. It is just another way of saying “fall in line.”

Real connection takes far more effort and far more courage. Owning your feelings and your actions is difficult, but it is also infinitely more worthwhile.

Weaponizing discomfort is toxic because it uses confusion and shame as control, making someone feel small and off balance instead of safe and understood, turning communication into emotional pressure rather than clarity.

Shame is as old as time, but people are always responsible for their own feelings.

Put another way sticks and stone may break my bones, but some people (kratzkopf) will always find some reason to justify being offended.

It would be better phrased without ending the sentence with a preposition, such as, “Sorry, I do not know to what you are referring.”

Are we weaponizing discomfort again…already?

If your famous enough, they’ll let you slap people on stage these days.

Try 95 to 99%.

And not really, even if you have a vacant airbnb property in west virginia. That is far away from an unhoused person’s community… Where they get food, support, income and social services.

And the idea to lock up the poor in their “own” community has been tried many times before, in very unsuccessful ways.

I had a homeless outreach team under me in a big east coast city for the last five years. What they need is substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, and a big social network that supports them… Or they will become unhoused as quickly as we house them.

Got you agent. Vacant homes are most often un maintained and very dangerous…often hundreds of thousands of dollars away from being safely habitable. Google vacant home picture.

1 From dictionary: A person’s race is primarily a social construct defined by self-identification with one or more social groups, based on perceived physical characteristics like skin color…

2. I love you, let’s run away together.

Id like to see that too.

Its make believe, now everyone loose your minds!

Why: Baltimore has 10,000 vacant homes. You’ll die or get seriously injured sleeping im about 90% of those. We sometimes call them bandominiums here.

See for yourself: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-has-more-than-16000-vacant-houses-why-cant-the-homeless-move-in/2015/05/12/3fd6b068-f7ed-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html