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This is why I called it a political problem. You are hand waving about using all our energy for abstract productivity as of we would do that instead of lighting

• ben_w 2y ago
  > You are hand waving about using all our energy for abstract productivity as of we would do that instead of lighting our homes. I may be simply wrong, but I can assure you it's definitely not a hand-wave. You may think it absurd that an economic choice would be made over a human value, but that kind of behaviour is exactly what happened in the Irish potato famine — there it was exporting food while starving to death. I am also planning to get domestic PV as soon as possible precisely because I anticipate this dynamic.
  • maxerickson 2y ago
    It is a hand wave. What's driving the infinite demand if humans don't have wages to buy things with?
    • ben_w 2y ago
      It's the core point. It's not capable of being a hand wave, it's the specific thing I'm concerned about. Again, I'm aware I might simply be wrong, but "wrong" and "hand wave" are different things. > What's driving the infinite demand if humans don't have wages to buy things with? 1) I didn't say infinite demand 2) I did say "out-bid the average human on both sides of the equation". "Average" human. Humans are not identical, but rather are a distribution. The ones who are more economically viable can continue to compete while the rest starve. This is also what we saw in the Irish potato famine, though "economically viable" had a different meaning.