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Income inequality can just be set through fiscal policy. It doesn’t matter how much “cash” the rich want to hoard if they can’t do it (as much) because it was already taxed.

Actually, we’re not a long way off from that. Hydrogen production facilities utilizing (excess) renewable electricity output are under construction as we speak. For example, a large project in Kazakhstan (which has large stretches of windy, sunny and empty steppes) is aiming to be online in 2030 with 30 GW of production going towards green hydrogen.

In the Eurozone private banks simply have to facilitate wire transfers to other accounts free of charge and instantly. People do it through their bank’s app or website, usually. This is regulated through the SEPA.

As for taxes, I do it in a few minutes through the free government-provided online portal.

Then again, you probably don’t have to sign so many Datenschutzerklärungen…

EVs already attained mass adoption. In Norway almost all new cars are EVs. Several countries are not far behind. Most countries are more suitable for EVs than Norway.

All cars were new cars once. If a majority of new cars are EVs, then it is only a matter of time before most used cars are as well.

It’s not (just) a matter of money. Even in China a third of new vehicles are EVs, and Estonia is much richer than China.

The hydro power helps, sure. But Norway is big, cold, and sparsely populated.

The polling wasn’t off in 2016, it was actually super accurate and missed the result by only one point.

Trump isn’t popular, but he doesn’t need to be, he just needs to be less unpopular than Biden, and right now polling is suggesting that he is exactly that.

I remember. The polls were accurate. The pundits were not. People were shocked because they didn’t want to believe that there are really that many loathsome morons around, not because they looked at what polls said.

Here are the main polls for that race on the eve of the election. What they actually said was that the race was close to a tossup, with Clinton perhaps very slightly favoured to win.

Here and here are favourability ratings. As you can see, Trump’s are substantially less negative.

I wasn’t saying favourability ratings should be used to predict elections. For that you have polls (in which Trump has a substantial but not decisive lead). I was just responding to the comment about who is more unpopular.

I think that people who respond to pollsters overwhelmingly know that Trump was president before, and clearly it doesn’t bother them what a train wreck that presidency was. It’s not clear to me how they would suddenly start realizing that closer to election day.