Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 10 Jul 2024 at 18:48:09 BST, john larkin wrote:
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Why end "capitalism"? Economic and intellectual plualism works.

 

Because it's inefficient, immoral, exploitative, and thrives on social
injustice and inequality.
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So does a mixed economy of both private enterprise and publicly-owned
bodies if the size of the state sector can be constrained. Unfortunately,
states have a tendency to grow themselves if not kept in strict check and
this is in large part responsible for the truly *vast* debt burden now
carried on the back of so many Western countries.

 
There's a race between government getting bigger and wasting ever more
resources, and technology making us more productive to support all
that waste.

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Not sure that holds on a number of levels - technology was supposed to result
in a 3 day week and prosperity for all when I was growing up in the 60s.
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And I've just come across Jevons paradox while studying retrofit. The notion
that as technology increases efficiency and reduces cost, a sort of dumb
reaction happens, where people tend to consume more - 'leave the heating on -
it's an ASHP and hardly using any electricity' type of thing. Apparently it's
quite common in energy efficient homes.
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Maybe we're all just idiots and there's nothing to be done :-)