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There have been predictions that technology will eliminate the need for work as long as there has been technology. Instead technology generates new growth which needs to maintained by work.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There have been predictions that technology will eliminate the need for work as long as there has been technology. Instead technology generates new growth which needs to maintained by work.
Doesn't someone still have to do the work?
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Doesn't someone still have to do the work?
Someone has to do the work though, even if you tax the wealthy.
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Someone has to do the work though, even if you tax the wealthy.
Looking for a direction in all the wrong places, asking the wrong people.
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking for a direction in all the wrong places, asking the wrong people.
@vladvexler.bsky.social is scoring it 5.29/10 on the fash scale. Mid-fash obscurity. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Was Stephen Miller’s speech fascist?
Stephen Miller's psychotic speech at Charlie Kirk memorial
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September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@vladvexler.bsky.social is scoring it 5.29/10 on the fash scale. Mid-fash obscurity. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
War crimes DO NOT justify war crimes.
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
War crimes DO NOT justify war crimes.
The Great Simplification, Planet: critical, Just have a think.
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The Great Simplification, Planet: critical, Just have a think.
It's only decarbonisation if humans stop digging fossil energy out of the ground. That bit never seems to happen.
September 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's only decarbonisation if humans stop digging fossil energy out of the ground. That bit never seems to happen.
I don't think that it will ever be possible to suppress demand for FF low enough that it becomes uneconomic to extract. FF is just too useful, and in ways that RE never can be, and extraction technology is constantly improving. In many ways FF and RE synergistic creating demand for each other.
August 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I don't think that it will ever be possible to suppress demand for FF low enough that it becomes uneconomic to extract. FF is just too useful, and in ways that RE never can be, and extraction technology is constantly improving. In many ways FF and RE synergistic creating demand for each other.
I'm saying nothing of the sort. Prioritise what matters within the boundaries of what is possible. Nothing lasts forever, and it was never going to.
August 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm saying nothing of the sort. Prioritise what matters within the boundaries of what is possible. Nothing lasts forever, and it was never going to.
What we consume now is mainly defined by our size, a cumulative total of historic production. If we are to consume and emit less in the future, there must be a limiting or destructive factor (de-growth), and that will be painful. Adding extra energy to a system is a de-limiting factor.
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What we consume now is mainly defined by our size, a cumulative total of historic production. If we are to consume and emit less in the future, there must be a limiting or destructive factor (de-growth), and that will be painful. Adding extra energy to a system is a de-limiting factor.
The key mechanism that underpins Jevon's is that an increase in efficiency will increase in the amount of surplus in a system. A surplus of resources can only either be wasted, or put to productive work via growth. New growth needs to be maintained in the future, committing to higher demand.
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The key mechanism that underpins Jevon's is that an increase in efficiency will increase in the amount of surplus in a system. A surplus of resources can only either be wasted, or put to productive work via growth. New growth needs to be maintained in the future, committing to higher demand.
I think you have answered your own question correctly here, but I would say that lower price of fossil inputs is probably as important driver of demand, growth and future consumption as there is, so if RE does that, it is increasing future FF demand.
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I think you have answered your own question correctly here, but I would say that lower price of fossil inputs is probably as important driver of demand, growth and future consumption as there is, so if RE does that, it is increasing future FF demand.
The extra systemic surplus fossil energy that results from an individual walking instead driving enables fossil fuelled growth in another part of the global economy, because fossil energy is useful. The more efficient our collective use of fossil resources, the more demand grows. #Jevonsparadox.
August 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The extra systemic surplus fossil energy that results from an individual walking instead driving enables fossil fuelled growth in another part of the global economy, because fossil energy is useful. The more efficient our collective use of fossil resources, the more demand grows. #Jevonsparadox.
I find it strange that orthodox neoliberal economics looks at the economy as positive sum when it comes to wealth and prosperity, but zero sum when it comes to energy sources (replacement 1 for 1). Both can't be true, and of course the later is BS. More RE can also increase FF demand.
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I find it strange that orthodox neoliberal economics looks at the economy as positive sum when it comes to wealth and prosperity, but zero sum when it comes to energy sources (replacement 1 for 1). Both can't be true, and of course the later is BS. More RE can also increase FF demand.
Agreed with the first part of your statement, but carbon footprints are systems illiterate scheme to shift responsibility away from governance on to individuals. When linked by a market, one person's reductions enable another person's emission increases, and the market is global.
August 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Agreed with the first part of your statement, but carbon footprints are systems illiterate scheme to shift responsibility away from governance on to individuals. When linked by a market, one person's reductions enable another person's emission increases, and the market is global.
Fossil energy remains useful, and a surplus of it will create its own demand. Growth has always worked like this way. The bigger question is whether we are now beyond the point where emission reductions can have a meaningful impact on the planet's warming trajectory.
August 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Fossil energy remains useful, and a surplus of it will create its own demand. Growth has always worked like this way. The bigger question is whether we are now beyond the point where emission reductions can have a meaningful impact on the planet's warming trajectory.
I think the main reason he didn't get re-elected in 2020 was the high percentage of postal votes, which couldn't be manipulated as easily as the electronic tabulators. youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?...
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July 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I think the main reason he didn't get re-elected in 2020 was the high percentage of postal votes, which couldn't be manipulated as easily as the electronic tabulators. youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?...
I don't think there has ever been an energy transition, only addition.
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I don't think there has ever been an energy transition, only addition.
Come on.... as if Trump is treatable.
July 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come on.... as if Trump is treatable.