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Allow few notes: more than mere heating poor AND ex-lower end of the middle class dropped to poverty not much by "energy crisis" but by deliberate political cho
by kkfx 4y ago
Allow few notes: more than mere heating poor AND ex-lower end of the middle class dropped to poverty not much by "energy crisis" but by deliberate political choices suffer and will suffer for high prices of foods, energy to cook food, energy to travel. You can easily cover yourself a bit for cold, not comfy but works, washing is harder but again doable, the issue for many is simply the facts that food prices goes up and up and up + the price to cook them. There is not much "covers" for such costs.
Beside that there is a big issue: personally I invested in the so called "Green New Deal" ante litteram, witch means a new will insulated and airtight home, with a modern VMC, modern heat-pump heating/cooling, p.v. etc so IN THEORY I'm both between "the privileged" and "those unaffected by skyrocketing prices" and well... That's actually FALSE.
That's false because most of my gears have an operational life if anything works well measurable in around 10 years. Witch means that EVEN with this actual sky-high energy prices they do not really pay back in monetary terms. Or those who can't/have chosen not to invest get impoverished with "opex", those who have invested with "capex", consequences are different of course, in human terms, but equal in economical terms. And that's MUCH relevant because means a thing, given such infamous publications like: https://youtu.be/Hx3DhoLFO4s https://youtu.be/Hx3DhoLFO4s the Green New Deal do not really target ecology/energy savings etc but just try to assault Citizens welfare with the DECLARED target of making most owning nothing. Before going into royalist more royalist than the King mode as classically happen on HN or Reddit when anything sound critics about neoliberals agenda get dumped try thinking: are new gears/construction techniques etc energy savings, useful for ecology etc? Yes, FORMALLY. But if they are accessible just by a small minority, let's say 10% of the total WESTERN population and we know it very well is this transition really made for ecology? Or it's just made with ecology as an excuse to reach very different targets? Try to think HONESTLY and without prejudice about that. Try to imaging how can we arrive following actual path to 2030.
Using economy as a key we can make convenient new deals investments with hard-to-find and 3-4€/l gasoline/diesel, 1€/kWh for electricity etc. We are on this very path. Then? If only very few can invest anyway and due to hyper-inflation they are now even far more reduced. Where we go? We make poor simply disappear in a snap of a finger? Even admitting such GENOCIDAL ideas how a new society can be build without poor workers? An army of officers without troops do not work. An army where NCOs have been degraded to troops do not work either, they'll rightly try to seek revenge not cooperation.