Man. Whenever I see these threads, I see a ton of people hopping in with their ideas on how to optimize a critical resource. It's the "heat people, not homes" m

Man. Whenever I see these threads, I see a ton of people hopping in with their ideas on how to optimize a critical resource. It's the "heat people, not homes" mantra. I mean, I get it. Every programmer salivates at the idea of writing a super efficient hand crafted assembly routine that blows the doors off of what's on the market right now, and that's good. But I can't help but think... If I wanted to drastically change people's behavior, it can be done easily. Step one: Cause a supply chain issue, creating artificial scarcity. Step two: Lecture everyone on how they need to be less wasteful, caution them about how painful life will be if "we aren't all in this together". Step three: Find every day Joe's and make an example of them in the public sphere for selfishly squandering precious resources. The public will gladly be your enforcers, thinking that if they all try hard enough the artificially created problem will go away. This technique always results in artificially created human suffering, and waste. The old joke about economic systems and cows was something to the tune of, "you have two cows. The communist milks your cows, and pours the milk down the drain". It's fascinating to read what Gareth Jones wrote about tractors in the Soviet Union -- how meddlesome people who didn't know how to farm / engineer inserted themselves into the process to tell everyone how to do their jobs, and royally screwed everything up. Edit: Link for the curious. Day thirty. https://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/experiences_in_russia_1931_days29to41.htm https://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/experiences_in_r...