Australia’s energy is a disaster. A perfect example of how popularity-electoral governance is completely…
Australia’s energy is a disaster. A perfect example of how popularity-electoral governance is completely incapable of fixing our material problems.
Watch all sides rush to household electrification and storage as the only feasible interim solution. 1/8
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The grid is a beautiful example of networked society. Both political parties and AEMO are stuck in the idea of centralised generation and distribution.
That’s old thinking, for a fuel that isn’t decentralised. Yes we still need some big generation and transmission. 2/8
The low-hanging fruit here, as it is for all economic problems, is households. Economy thinking cannot comprehend that, because it sees households as individual consumers in a ‘macro’ market.
There is no macro. Or micro. There are networks. The household IS the ‘economy’. 3/8
Electrifying households, as Saul Griffith says here from his Quarterly Essay, fixes the micro AND the macro problems, at the same time.
It also drives down cost of living. Everybody wins. We need to ditch the whole idea of ‘the economy’, and replace it with households. 4/8 https://t.co/d0pE0sZaD7
All the other things that happen in our supposed economy are really just support mechanisms and services, for households. ‘Business’ is just that.
The economy makes business the driving force of society. That’s a recipe for collapse. 5/8
It mistakes means and ends. ‘Business’ is just the means, towards the ends of happy, healthy and prosperous households.
‘The economy’ always was the con of reversing this obvious truth. Making our own service industries more important than what they serve. 6/8
That reversal makes people who own these essential services very rich. It’s why the economy was invented, as a concept, to disguise that swindle.
Go households. People with money is a thriving ‘economy’. Businesses with money but no solvent customers is social collapse. 7/8
That’s what our ‘cost of living’ crisis is. The endgame of swapping means and ends. Making our services dominant over the people they serve. Who now can’t afford them.
Insanity, complete lunacy.
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