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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • A lot of people dont seem to realize, a road is living infrastructure. It needs to be maintained in order to stay usable. You dont build a road and it just stays there forever. Its a service, not a one time purchase. Modern societies rely on this service to keep them running. Its not freedom to go anywhere without big government dictating where you can go. Its a specific, constantly updating and repairing living network - all controlled by the government.

    Train tracks are the same, they just fill a more specific role. And AFAIK, here at least, if you buy a train, you can ride the rails too. A transportation engineer told me once, if more people bought trains, the government would be forced to lay down more track. Its a funny thought but in that sense, roads and train tracks both ultimately serve the people.














  • So I tried to apply Hegelian dialectic to this. Either style is the thesis and the opposite style is the antithesis. There’s something about each style that isn’t appealing to each generation and so they move away from it. There’s a lack of synthesis so we never move past these two styles and never create a new one. We are locked in the vicious cycle. This suggests something inhuman is interfering with the process.



  • Here it boils down to:

    • Network power (fixed fee based on your max power needs, depends on time as well, can be 3.6€ / kw in winter months)
    • Network energy transfer (fee for energy transfered, here its about 0.018€/kwh)
    • Energy (fee on the energy used, about 0.146€/kwh right now)
    • VAT
    • some bullshit for maintenance and running an open market portal for companies to buy/sell energy (like 1-3€)