The industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race -
You fix it.
But while you do that, dont effing hoodwink and guilttrip middleclass folks into investing in a renewable economy before presumed larger efficiency gains, causing their investments to be devalued.
Also when you push states to set rules that include externalities, you do that pulling down industrial processes efficiency (at more than a 20% loss, roughly), because oil currently is still cheap (and in some sectors you currently dont have a valid replacement (transportation (en mass))), and have to implement a border tax regime again, because you major trading partners are still laughing into your face about 'save the climate stuff'. Causing major harm to your economy.
Rebuttle then is, yes, but if you distribute it better and have higher income middleclasses trapped in a religious stupor, you can mitigate that, and get a 'first mover advantage" longterm. Issue. Speculative, and you bank on the religious stupor part.
As an addon, 'circular economies' dont work in any way at all from a 'retain quality of life' perspective, and to make sense efficiency wise, probably forever.
And then you come in with the stupid effing idea (sorry), to shift economic consumption over to 'virtual goods', because when you have pacified people in VR, all sit on the couch and click the skinner box button all day, issue zolved. Yay future.
(Facebook has built nothing, ever, except stupid pretty addictive skinner boxes. Thanks, social studies majors hired by the company!)
And then I have to listen to STUUUUUPID rectifications, from Mark Zuck the berg, where all this is so cool, because a flipping designer kid in brasil can come up with your next VR TV design, that you will buy for them real bux.
And if that doesnt work out, we go 'second currency' on the entire population and gamify life - just the way we gamers know and looovve.
Rant aside, structurally - you are still running into 30% cut of profit made by others 'we provide the virtual infrastructure' monopolies, that even today have no flipping reason to exist. Virtual goods economies, would scale to zero cost (as we open source users know first hand), and half of your flipping economies, would not only be virtual in a discriptive sense, but actually made up, resting only on marketing and (anti piracy/patent) laws that uphold artificial properties.
I look at this and see people wanting to take the mick out of society, at scale - for as long as possible.
This ONLY makes sense, if you are an affluent, multinational, liberal idiot, that could think about paying 30% more to keep their lifestyle largely the same, but feel better because of added virtue signaling benefits. And for that you had to alter society, to think that your behavior is 'high moral' and not just deranged.
All that while the energy industry sits back and hedges their bets on investments, because technological progress could be reaped for free, every additional year you do nothing.
Long term goals are clear and undistputed - but everything else, everything else....
Additional issues: Drive as many people as possible into rural environments, where they will cultivate the ground as a CO2 sink, not drive, not take part in the political process, not matter, and slowly realize, that they've been had big time, roughly at the same rate as they come to the conclusion that everything got harder, and less fun, but now with a designed community, and designed purpose.
Also religious stupor is designed to only last as long as you could press investment out of boomers and stupid millenials, because you're never going to touch the capitalist model, really, which is fully expected to take over again after the 'renewable' transition. So what the eff? What type of social betterment should I celebrate here?
(If I'd be a power elite, I'd be stuck in a constant laughing fit, designing this.)
Storytelling on this will be so fun...
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