• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Free market economics are going to slurp any extra watt as long as it’s capable of making a modicum of profit, unless it is just told “no”. The private sector is going to have to pay far more for their power, or else we’ll never reach NET zero emissions.

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      4 months ago

      “bUt ThInK aBoUt ThE eCoNoMy!!”

      • Everytime, anyone every mentions any of the many unfair advantages that businesses are getting.
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        4 months ago

        Just replace “economy” with “rich peoples money” to translate.

        Perhaps people would give a shit about the economy if we could afford to own a house?

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      There’s no free market. Free market would mean no copyright, no patents, no brand protection. With real free market (provided you have endless energy from Satan knows where to support that state of things) we’d have noname small to medium businesses coming and going, bigger corporations existing for very complex supply chains and\or some advantageous trade secrets.

      That would potentially cause stagnation in some long perspective, but fix the current situation.

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          Well, there is a joke about Chernobyl station fulfilling the 5-year plan for energy output in 5 seconds.

          I meant that to protect that free market from various people trying to make it less free in their favor you’d need that energy. Which is why it’ll never reach that state.

          And removing those very important limitations I named is very hard, even unrealistic maybe, but that doesn’t mean that it’s adequate to pretend that a market including them is free. They change everything.

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      Even if it’s told “no,” it’ll take the person or entity that denied them access straight to the courts, all the while continuing to do so anyway.