Spending millions of public money in pursuit of a submersible owned by a private company that skirted safety precautions and regulation in pursuits of faster profits.

“Privatization of profit and socialization of risk. That’s called capitalism.”

-Noam Chomsky

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Yeah, that’s a really good point.

If we went to the federal government and said, “hey, these five people in my community are destroying their family and dying because of an opioid addiction,” you can rest assured there would be absolutely no mobilization.