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I don't think that's the way I'd describe it though. It's more like "our political technology is not good enough to reliably do good things instead of bad thin
by BrenBarn 2mo ago
I don't think that's the way I'd describe it though. It's more like "our political technology is not good enough to reliably do good things instead of bad things". Working around it by lowering prices of this or that is like if you're bad at darts so you just make the board bigger and bigger. Okay, maybe you'll hit it more often, but you didn't fix the problem that you're bad at darts, so everyone still at risk of having their eye put out by an errant throw. Moreover, I don't think I'm the only who finds it a bit perverse to accommodate to failures in that way rather than trying to actually make things better.
- Marha01 2mo agoIt can indeed feel perverse, but we have to do what is realistic, not what is unrealistic, especially with climate change where we are on a clock. Fixing our politics is probably much, much harder than lowering the price of solar to such low values that the market would simply have no choice but to adopt it, or developing other technological solutions.
- don_esteban 2mo agoFixing the politics is still necessary, and rather urgent. (Yes, I don't see how.) Otherwise we are in for a great societal upheaval that might make low price of solar irrelevant.
- BrenBarn 2mo ago> Fixing the politics is still necessary, and rather urgent. I agree. It's just wishful thinking to say that oh if we just lower the price of solar then it'll be okay. There are innumerable issues which are blocked by politics and we will never solve them all without fixing politics. > Otherwise we are in for a great societal upheaval that might make low price of solar irrelevant. These days I think a great societal upheaval may be the only way to fix politics.