Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[OngBonga]

I think a lot of the anti-capitalism feeling comes from jealousy and a feeling that the system is stacked against the non-wealthy.

No this isn't true, at least not from my pov. Yes there's bitterness that I was never able to do things that I wanted to do, but that's negligable when I look at the bigger picture. I'm still happy with fuck all, I get a meagre income for doing fuck all, I get my rent paid etc. I'm doing a lot fucking better than the majority of people in the world. At least I live in a country where people aren't forced to beg and steal to get by. I understand this system is better than anything we've had before. But that's the point. That's why people think it's so great. Because we don't know any better. But we can do better than this, jfc. I honestly do not think this is blind optimism. I mean for fuck's sake, look what we apparently acheived in Egypt tens of thousands of years ago? Our knowledge of astrology was pretty damn advanced back then. What the fuck has happened since? They understood things about geology that the vast majority of people today do not understand, me included. Yet we can't run the world on the massively abundant supply of solar and geothermal energy in 2013? We're being held back, I'm convinced of it.

Yeah I realise it's all consiparcy talk. I'm not on some mission to convince the world, I mean why would I want to anyway when I can't know for certain? I just don't believe the bullshit I read in the news any more. I had no reason to question the way the world works until 9/11. That event caused a huge rise in people who take conspiracy theories seriously. That suggests strongly that it's more than just the usual paranoid crackpots that believe it's bullshit.

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I mean for fuck's sake, look what we apparently acheived in Egypt tens of thousands of years ago? Our knowledge of astrology was pretty damn advanced back then. What the fuck has happened since? They understood things about geology that the vast majority of people today do not understand, me included. Yet we can't run the world on the massively abundant supply of solar and geothermal energy in 2013? We're being held back, I'm convinced of it.

LOL. Jesus, dude. First off, you meant astronomy, not astrology. And it isn't true. If you indeed meant astrology, you get a bigger JESUS, DUDE and an accusation of trolling

Whoever you're listening to is not representing the facts of geothermal and solar as well as you think. Or maybe they are but you're not putting them into accurate context. Either way, there are a million things that go into turning those two sources of energy into viable ones. Currently they counter other sources pretty much exactly as much as they are viable to do so. Like it or not, it's still cheaper to pull packed carbon from the seabed or mountainsides and ship it around the world than to try to do the same with geothermal or solar. Eventually, solar will be cheaper (probably incredibly cheaper) than packed carbon, but it currently is not. Geothermal never will be. Never. Not ever. It works only in certain regions and can't be exported that easily. Iceland has so much of it because of its position on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge divergent plate. No other regions can do what Iceland can

From now on, whenever you think of energy, think of packaging. One of the main reasons we use what we use is because of storage. Oil and coal is already stored incredibly efficiently by nature itself, while solar and wind and everything else is dependent on weak ass battery tech. As soon as it's cheaper to move a box of solar energy from one place to another, we'll rapidly shift off oil