>maintenance has to be valued outside of austerity, and right now it’s unclear if our current economic system is capable of that. As we hit the backside of the

>maintenance has to be valued outside of austerity, and right now it’s unclear if our current economic system is capable of that. As we hit the backside of the carbon pulse that gave many of us a standard of living that Kings could only dream of as few as 200 years ago, the need to build things for the long term will once again take precedent. The ability for governments and institutions to paper over reality shouldn't be underestimated, but we're eventually going to have to trade power coupons for natural resources, and those resources are finite, and the difficulty of extracting them from the earth is increasing. The market driven insanity of freely using virgin material for disposable trinkets will correct itself in time.