Frederick Bott
2 min readAug 26, 2024

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Hehe I get your sentiment, but look, what is work, and what is money, money is abstrracted energy, so if we have oodles of energy, as there is now for free, your solar panels do some work for you, and none of that which was done with energy received with nothing asked in return by the sun, no work, none of it is monetised, so no money is created for it.
By rights, money should be issued on that, in order to correctly value the work done by solar energy, it's trillions believe it or not, and as long as no money is issued on that, the only energy product relentlessly scaling up, whilst the still monetised energy extracted from the planet scales down, money is progressively coming to have no energy value. In other words it's devaluing to nothing because energy is what quantifies what money can do, and in the end it's the energy we need, not the money that's worth no energy.
And look, all the energy in all the profit ever made, applied to the thermal mass of the planet as KWhrs adds up to the temperature rise.
The only way to get the temperature back down is start to really use the energy of solar, it's the only one we can use to reverse entropy increase, this means monetising it.
Until they do that, the billionaires are just impoverishing themselves by denying themselves also the infinite wealth that we, and all life, should have.
By impoverishing us, they impoverish themselves.
I think this is another way to say what you are saying, there are many ways to look at it, it all comes to the same conclusion :)

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Frederick Bott
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