• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    If anyone thought we were heading to a future of lower power consumption they were deluding themselves. We can lower emissions by eliminating fossil fuels, but per capita net power consumption will, on average, continue going up, because it will still always correlate with getting useful physical work done.

    Western countries need to figure out that the future will lbe dominated by who can produce the most clean energy, the cheapest.

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      11 hours ago

      Well, quick buck or not, check their economy before and after and report back to explain what else exactly they could leverage to their advantage

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        You do not have a right or obligation to leverage your advantage at the expense of everyone else, no matter how many Ayn Rand loving psychopaths will try and argue otherwise.

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            As an abstract system, yeah, that is mechanistically how it works. If you live your life and make real world decisions based on an abstract system that doesn’t accurately and wholistically model the real world, then you’re either lying to yourself, or us, or you don’t understand the purpose of money and capitalism in the first place.

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        Economy of what? A country that has no jobs outaide of Dublin, and rents beyond what a median income can afford in Dublin? Ireland has a fake economy that is built entirely on lies with no money going to actual working people. It’s like if Rhode Island eas an independent country.