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I can't help thinking of the 'Milton Friedman' quote 'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of san
by olivermarks 4y ago
I can't help thinking of the 'Milton Friedman' quote
'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand'
expanded out to the giant unelected global bureaucracies some people would appear to want to give permission to run energy supplies.
- rglover 4y agoThis is the ultimate truth that, for whatever reason (emotional/egoic as far as I can tell), gets conveniently ignored. Truly sad to see humanity limit/destroy itself over and over when there are perfectly viable options available.
- olivermarks 4y agoThe reality is that politicians and large businesses always want to centralize everyone around their single core to control the market/services etc, whether 'left' or 'right', and their propaganda/pr is always subtly pushing problem/reaction/solution to further those goals... The panopticon controls enabled by AI & IoT can easily be used to meter/control energy (and separately water) to individuals. This is of huge concern around 'smart meters'
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