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Gee almost as if capitalism is the actual underlying issue.
Free market economics are going to slurp any extra watt as long as it's capable of making a modicum of profit, unless it is just told "no". The private sector is going to have to pay far more for their power, or else we'll never reach NET zero emissions.
"bUt ThInK aBoUt ThE eCoNoMy!!"
Just replace "economy" with "rich peoples money" to translate.
Perhaps people would give a shit about the economy if we could afford to own a house?
There's no free market. Free market would mean no copyright, no patents, no brand protection. With real free market (provided you have endless energy from Satan knows where to support that state of things) we'd have noname small to medium businesses coming and going, bigger corporations existing for very complex supply chains and\or some advantageous trade secrets.
That would potentially cause stagnation in some long perspective, but fix the current situation.
Are you suggesting we harvest portals to hell for unlimited free energy? Genius!
Well, there is a joke about Chernobyl station fulfilling the 5-year plan for energy output in 5 seconds.
I meant that to protect that free market from various people trying to make it less free in their favor you'd need that energy. Which is why it'll never reach that state.
And removing those very important limitations I named is very hard, even unrealistic maybe, but that doesn't mean that it's adequate to pretend that a market including them is free. They change everything.
I was referencing Doom, where free energy was one of the excuses for the hell portals.
Oops. I'm too young
Even if it’s told “no,” it’ll take the person or entity that denied them access straight to the courts, all the while continuing to do so anyway.
The really juicy bit is the hypocrisy of asking common people to refrain from consuming.
"Fuck you plebe" would at least have the positive of being honest.
That’s history. The ones with the means hoard anything of value while blaming the commons for their problems. Doesn’t matter if it’s the Irish Potato Famine or telling us global warming is our fault because we didn’t buy enough greenwashed shit to fix it.
The Irish famine was more of a result of imperial policy. It's about genocidal states, not capitalism. I mean, yes, most of Ireland was owned by landlords residing elsewhere, and "protection" of their rights was one of the reasons, but there were also things quite obviously showing the intent, like widespread destruction of church records and local history.
It can both be about profit and genocide. They can exist at the same time. IOW, genocide can be profitable.
There really was a motive, if you wish, to use the land freed by expelled (or dead) tenants for something else.
I just don't like blaming things on markets and profit motives and capitalism in general, because "tit for tat" in human interactions is not something you can just replace ideologically. It's in our nature. The sane approach is to make it work in less catastrophic ways, like with sports and video games and martial arts and adult entertainment.
I think profit and power, or the lack thereof, can be the root of a lot of these awful human traits. It can just be straight up greed driven by a few looking to gain power and/or money that push an agenda of [insert tried and true bogeymen here like xenophobia, religion, racism, etc.] to create motives and instabity to trigger the wars. It could be genuine problems like economic issues or severe agricultural deficiency, via real misfortune or more likely due to greed, corruption, and mismanagement by the country’s leadership. Even religion can be the rationalization, a tit-for-tat, but nonetheless the end result is to take what the enemy has. It doesn’t have to be formalized markets or capitalism.