Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 12/07/2024 12:55 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:31 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
 

On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:29:33 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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Wealth is the thing that allows human resources to be invested
long-term, and not all burned up right now.

Wealth is the capacity to buy things, including human labour. It can be spent in all sorts of ways, some of them constructive.

Marx was a moron.  "Capital" is just a symptom of what really matters,
which is ideas.

Karl Marx wasn't a moron. He corresponded with Abraham Lincoln.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2193-an-unfinished-revolution
Marx was much better on economics than he was on practical politics.
Capital is what you need to turn ideas into profitable reality. If you've had good ideas in the past, and been able to realise them, you may accumulate enough capital to be able to invest in realising new ideas, but there are other ways of accumulating capital and it certainly isn't just a symptom of having had good ideas in the past.

Communist countries crush ideas, which is why they are so poor.

Communist countries are autocratic, which does mean that powerful people have are influence in areas they don't understand, and suppress good ideas they don't appreciate.
The US is plutocratic, which means that rich people have influence in areas they don't understand and can suppress good idea that they don't appreciate. Your own attitude to anthropogenic globla warming is a classic example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
points out that this has it's downsides too.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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