I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
One can vote on goals and leave the implementation to experts. People trying to out think experts tends to lead to nonsense like anti vaccing.
If you think the private sector is never slow, lumbering or inefficient, I have news for you.
Your own quote shows the scale required simply to keep up − 450 reactors supplying 10% of today’s load. So napkin math means we need 4500 of them to do all of it (which, of course, only accounts for electrical usage, not fuel usage). See how important understanding exactly how big of a problem scale is as a factor here?
10% is 10%,not nothing. Since renewables are a thing, there is no need for nuclear to be 100% of the solution.
I don’t support the idea that you just blindly hand your responsibility for understanding and resolving issues to anyone else, let alone the state.
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I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).
I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
One can vote on goals and leave the implementation to experts. People trying to out think experts tends to lead to nonsense like anti vaccing.
If you think the private sector is never slow, lumbering or inefficient, I have news for you.
10% is 10%,not nothing. Since renewables are a thing, there is no need for nuclear to be 100% of the solution.
vs
These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).