Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
November 1, 2011 - 9:06am
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More techno-solutions to problems that are social at their root.
Energy will never be "free" in a capitalist system. There will always be someone to appropriate it, commodify it, and sell it to us for a profit. Just as has happened with wind energy and solar energy and fresh water - all of which are nominally "free" but in fact are not free at all, because they are not collectively owned.
More techno-solutions to problems that are social at their root.
Energy will never be "free" in a capitalist system. There will always be someone to appropriate it, commodify it, and sell it to us for a profit. Just as has happened with wind energy and solar energy and fresh water - all of which are nominally "free" but in fact are not free at all, because they are not collectively owned.
I of course sense your frustration....as to the divvying up......so as to capitalize on the privatization of. So you have to fight that while the transfer to contracting out goes on until you cannot recognize the public company anymore.
But I have a sense of hope about ingenuity.....that we can change the the idea of consumerism by the way in which we can look at the New Left? Links on "RECLAIMING THE COMMONS " and the, THE CRISES OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM
So can we say that the future will be dictated by a new consumerism that will shift with the idea of what the people want. Versus the strong arm of capitalism and capitalistic governments who support the infrastructure of privatization, so as to assume through electoral governments who see seeks to portray has better management under the idea of a "free market." I sense the frustration here too.:)
The Occupy movement while demonstrating it's basis will have to seek new ways to "move the economy." Ways that people will raise the "standard of care" that is equal and supportive toward all levels of society. So as to have balance in the rights to life, rights toward a creative ingenuity, when all can be taken care of, so as to advance that society. Ah what a dreamy society eh?
Democratic capitalism is an oxymoron and an impossibility. You don't get a "vote" on how capitalism is to operate unless you own capital. And because capitalism is founded on private property rights, you only get to "vote" on how your own capital is to be used - not your competitor's.
Democratic capitalism is an oxymoron and an impossibility. You don't get a "vote" on how capitalism is to operate unless you own capital. And because capitalism is founded on private property rights, you only get to "vote" on how your own capital is to be used - not your competitor's.
Hi,
As you can see from here......I totally disagree with you. That is just my opinion though. :)
UPDATE: Council meets with OTF and OTPP on Chilean water investmentsInitiatives in research and development toward making BC Hydro a strong public and viable company? We are all aware of the infrastructure being sought by privatization as to seeing it's "control over the people" being transferred to companies who can do it better? Fortis who?
Privatization governments seek to make things ready for.....so smart meters will help to create a smart paying infrastructure for companies like...( contracting out too, in order to reduce jobs)? Imagine putting a product like hydro over too a market driven demand? That's fair right? We are playing right into it?
Water?
Best,
Strike! At least seven major cities adopted measured service in the 1880s: Boston; San Francisco; Buffalo; Pittsburgh; Indianapolis; Washington, DC; and Rochester, New York. The policy had a pro-consumer aspect; it expanded the market of any local exchange carrier to people who didn't want to pay a big monthly service fee, thus extending the circle of individuals any rate payer could call. But while measured service initially succeeded in San Francisco and Buffalo, it failed everywhere else throughout the decade. Consumers could not shake the suspicion that its real purpose was to get them to pay more money to the telephone company. And so they resorted to what we would call boycotts and they called "strikes" to make their dissatisfaction known.
"The term 'strike' has come to be associated primarily with a work stoppage," John notes, but "in the 1880s its meaning was broader. A corporation could be struck not only by workers, but also by consumers and even lawmakers."
As early as 1881, for example, Washington, DC's "Telephone Subscribers Protective Association" launched a boycott of its exchange when the company adopted measured billing. It wasn't very long affair, just twelve days. But 300 out of the city's 700 phone subscribers participated. That was all it took for the firm to surrender and bring back flat rates. See: Mad about metered billing? They were in 1886, too