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Why are they so actively just... evil? They could have just left it alone, it was already installed and working, there was no good reason...
Man, I know how we got here, but really, I still don't get it.
Same reason they buy whatever shit Detroit farts out instead of good cars for their motorpool. Backhanders to donors.
"The cruelty is the point"
The level of antipathy from even ordinary conservatives towards anything that suggests the 'old ways' like fucking coal aren't the end-all be-all of human existence is... staggering. The 'old ways' are their 'tribe', and they'll fucking die to defend its 'honor'.
t. grew up in a conservative area
That’s just America and the Industrial Revolution. A new tech emerges, not perfect but good for the times, and then the industry around it has enough profits to delay and deny better future tech from ever taking over. Kodak invented the digital camera then buried it to protect their film selling racket. Oil companies print money to destroy anything they don’t control, but refuse to become energy companies that sell modern renewables instead. If an oil company took their profits from back then and built a solar r&d department we’d have better tech today, and they would profit off it.
They went for the quick buck rather than sustainability and as the oil runs out and they start starving, they still buy politicians instead of investing in future viable tech. Idk if there’s a word for this, I’ve been calling them doorstop industries.
It's... really not restricted to that. Not even broadly.
... what do you think the pace of technology progress was like before the industrial revolution?
We talking antiquity, medieval, age of sail, or early modern? Because all of those have vastly different progress, for example the medieval period saw vast leaps in metallurgy and chemistry while antiquity was had a shit tonne of early mechanical engineering going on.
The point is that all of that pales to the pace of technological progress during and after the industrial revolution, which casts doubts on the uniqueness or efficacy of the narrative of 'industrialists are strangling technological progress'.
Its not right to steal the power from the sun that God has granted us. We have to steal the power from the oil where it is deep underground and God won't notice.
That's actually just stealing power from the sun from hundreds of millions of years ago.
It comes from dinosaurs, which god didn’t create. So you’re not stealing from god.
(Yeah I know it’s mostly plants.)
You would believe that liberal dinosaur propaganda. I bet you believe their lies that its non renewable as well. Thats what they said about coal and we've still got plenty of coal, the best coal.
You can’t just eat raw sun it has to be boiled and mashed into a stew