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by markus_zhang 87 days ago
If you tell me I can make 10 million bucks this year, with the penalty of not making anything for the rest of my life, I guess I don’t mind?
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Would you have made it anyway? Can we stop you? Does it cause a negative externality that will be more rapidly diminished if you pull forward this gain? Consider it a premium paid by fossil fuel consumers to encourage a more rapid transition from fossil fuels by pushing pain into the energy market for the next half decade.

Congrats to those who won the lotto, enjoy your luck.

Eh, definitely not me, still a salary slave. But yeah kudos to whoever won the oil lottery.