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We already have the more efficient technologies; the main resistance is those benefiting from the status quo, who have the most money/power.
by jwatte 10y ago
We already have the more efficient technologies; the main resistance is those benefiting from the status quo, who have the most money/power.
- nl 10y agoWe already have the more efficient technologies; the main resistance is those benefiting from the status quo, who have the most money/power. This is wrong on many levels. Firstly, I said "much, much more efficient AND much, much cheaper". Both need to be true in order to combat the high costs of setting up an industrial production facility. Secondly, I don't think either of these things are met. What are these more efficient and cheaper technologies for - say - producing cars, or plastic toys, or glass, or.. something. Thirdly, these people benefiting from the status quo in industrial production.. which status quo is that exactly? The one where production moved to Mexico from the US 15 years ago? Or the one where it moved to factories in China? Or the current one where Chinese factory workers are losing jobs to increased automation? Note that I'm not saying that the same people aren't keeping the money and power. I'm saying that they don't care about the place or means of production. They'll be just as happy to make money from cheap, efficient production as from expensive, polluting production.