14 August

The marginal cost of most things we use in society now is actually pretty much zero. Industrial manufacturing is so efficient that we long since haven’t needed most people to work at all. The only reason they do work is because a job is the way the tiny financial elite of society ration out the vast hordes of our money they sit on. Energy will be the next big thing to become free. Within a decade, many predict. To think we had politicians and many of the public for the past decade trying to fight to retain filthy, expensive fossil fuel-powered energy, when energy could have been free for all. People spending over $100 a week on petrol right now might reflect on that, as might the Brits about to have annual energy bills of over $8000.