If we shouldn't expect people to be compensated, then why even bring up a dollar amount in the first place? Are you justifying enslaving people in order to "make it work"?

"planet Earth doesn't care" - The printed money will end up in retirement and transfer funds. Put another way if San Francisco can't even control the human feces, homeless and needle problem - how on earth can liberals control something complex like CO2 through non market legislative means?

> I never hear this criticism when devaluing our currency to go to war or subsidize large business.

Oddly, I hear it all the time.

Perhaps two wrongs don't make a right.