Your government will not allow that. The cost of grid upgrades is being pushed onto existing customers. In my state, the utility commission approved rate hikes of 20-30% to fund data center related grid upgrades. Meanwhile generation remains flat

Itâ(TM)s worse than that. Big tech is socializing the cost of powering its AI dream onto the people it also intends to throw out of work. So, AI will take your job and you will pay for it. Your elected representatives are all in.

The problem is weâ(TM)ve allowed universities to become bloated with do nothing administrators by guaranteeing funding through federally backed loans. This has made an entire generation into lifelong debt slaves while we are missing critical skills for our economy. You can kick and squeal all you like about the value of an education and the value of the university experience, but if one cannot afford to survive due to the costs of those experience they arenâ(TM)t so valuable are they?

Ive used iPhones since the 4S and generally have kept them for 5-6 years. The upgrades were always payment free via the carrier promo.

We need it? Why? We have flights that do the job better - they dont require massive amounts of land seizure

They are so impractical to build given the geographically distributed nature of the American population. It would require trillions of dollars just to acquire the land needed to build practical routes of track.

All the old paper work was replaced by obtuse workflows and new paper work.

This stuff is not new and it is not modern. People migrate, and have done so for thousands of years.

What do you suppose caused the Bronze Age collapse?

Now provide access roads for construction, foundations on the soil, disposal of the removed fill, and water/sewer

This has nothing to do with billionaires. You can decide right now to stop buying plastics, stop replacing your phone every year, give up your car and move to a city center, and stop supporting businesses that are oil based. If everybody who is concerned about oil consumption did this, oil consumption would shrink. Oil companies are simply meeting demand, burning more. Instead we want someone else to do something about it but no one can really say what that something is. Easier to blame the billionaires when the culprit is staring at you from the mirror. Well, if not you the who?

And I realize this may not be your specific behavior, but too many people squeal like stuck pigs when in reality it is they who refuse to change behavior.

Green energy requires oil based plastics and oil based chemicals. EVs require oil based plastics and oil based chemicals. Fuels are needed for extraction and transportation of raw materials such as lithium and cobalt. Fuels are needed to run the intricate Asian supply chains the low cost global economy depends on - itâ(TM)s all by ship. Improvements in EV technology arenâ(TM)t going to eliminate the dirtiest fuels from transportation. This explains why: https://youtu.be/w__a8EcM2jI?s...

A company thatâ(TM)s going toconsume massive energy and water resources while presumably throwing millions out of work and onto the public dole in the name of cost savings does not deserve taxpayer money. They have to bear all the risk if they want the rewards. Otherwise they are a useless parasite.

All these smart widgets, like smart phones, are designed to monetize you for advertising purposes. Thats it. Your âoesmart fridgeâ is collecting data about your grocery shopping, your smart tv is collecting information about your viewing habits. Your computer and isp are tracking your web habits, as is your favorite vpn provider. Your smart phone is collecting information about where you are going and what you are doing (even at the carrier level). Your car will soon be tracking your movements and driving habits so the data can be sold to car insurers. Itâ(TM)s all about data, ads, and finding new and better ways to drive consumption.

Just because we cannot describe something with out limited mathematical skills doesnt mean it cant be described algorithmically. Science is never settled.

Tax policy will need to index prices to inflation and raise rates progressively as one deviates from the inflation rate. In the case of things such as rents, one will have to tax vacancies at increasingly punitive rates.