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Making more money? It’s not like we won’t have heat at all. Bills and prices will just become super high. The fact that everyone knows this will blunt impact.
by scyzoryk_xyz 4y ago
Making more money?
It’s not like we won’t have heat at all. Bills and prices will just become super high. The fact that everyone knows this will blunt impact. I’m seeing lots of city lights out or turned down. Smart energy use will probably become a bigger topic.
I live in a big Polish city though, so someone will just take care of it and charge me. For people who own houses and live outside cities I have heard of friends’ parents stockpiling coal, fuel, wood etc. And that it can be difficult to buy those at reasonable prices.
However I think it is important to remember at moments like this that we live in the 1st world and in 2022. We have gotten used to cheap luxuries. Headlines would like us to have great fear in losing even a little tiny bit. But I don’t think this is the case. Normal people aren’t afraid at all, they’re just pissed that everything is expensive.
Everyone understands that there is a war going on, and that there are very important values which we represent as the EU. In this attack the enemy intends to cripple those beliefs by creating discomfort for us. They want to prove to themselves that we are these decadent materialists that go into a mass hysteria at first sign of trouble.
But we got hit by a huge wave of refugees, and instead of lashing out at them, we’ve made them feel welcome. I suspect something similar will be the case here - people will just do what they can to conserve energy.
- picsao 4y agoThe wave was small compared to what's yet to come. And we can already perceive a rise in authoritarian governments and decline of left institutions. Putin is accelerating a declining process well underway and though we still will be here afterwards, we might not recognize ourselves in the mirror. War is to force your enemy to change his behavior by force. Putin might actually on the verge of victory here.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>Making more money? Yeah, tell that to people in Eastern Europe where pensioners will have to decide between paying for heating and paying for medicine. Maybe boomers in Western EU countries like Netherlands or Germany will be fine with their 3 houses they rent out to supplement their "measly" 2k Euro pensions, but in eastern Europe boomers don't have it too good with their 200 Euro pensions living in uninsulated shacks or commie blocks.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoI think you misunderstood my meaning - it was a direct response to the question of “what are you doing to xyz”. I am trying to make more money to pay for the bills. Being in Eastern Europe myself I would comment that families support each other with this. No reason to call our homes “commie blocks” and “shacks”
- dougmwne 4y agoYou got some downvotes for being flippant about money, but think this perspective is valuable as it shows the Polish worldview well. Lines at the coal mine near me are more than 2 weeks long with people sleeping in their cars trying to stock up for winter. This country has a hard history and a little cold is not going to stop it. If this is an attack, the country is ready to defend.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoYeah definitely that sentence was taken as a comment on what everyone should be doing. I meant what I’m doing personally. I live in a “commie block” myself and it’s the energy bills that will rise for our building. I don’t have to think about fuel directly. We are ready to defend - our only weakness are the incompetent people we have elected into power. In a very quiet way they have done nearly everything possible to weaken us strategically.