Re: DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?)
It's something that will obviously happen eventually since we take all the low hanging fruit first, but they're claiming that within only 10 years 75% of gas stations in the US will be gone
Because we are transitioning to battery powered transportation. These dense cities are suffocating on smog in China. Ditto Asia in general. Just makes sense as Asia becomes the most wealth economy in the world.
As for fossil fuels generation plants, Australia and other places are loaded to gills with cheap coal.
Also, for those suggesting a world government is a good thing; not on the banker's terms, and not before the rest of the world catches up to "first-world" status. The labor imbalances and new labor markets opening up for super cheap, along with societies further back in technology, are a net negative. Plus national culture is lost, among other things. Not a benefit.
Malthusians are always correct.
(they never are, never)
They always see a larger pie as impossible.
Malthusians want to return to simpler time when there was no surplus and thus we were all struggling every day to find food:
The government is the most inefficient use of resources, so keeping resources out of the government's hands should be the best for growing the economy.
Yea, the government requires lots of waste to exist. Humans used to be hunter gatherers, then as soon as they started creating surplus, the predator class (govt) arose from that surplus. It seems like peak conventional crude oil (which appeared to happen in 2004) will force the state to scale back most of it's power unless it can replace all of it's current waste with fusion energy or having a dangerous fission plant every few feet.