[FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets)

[uǝlƃ ↙↙↙]

I should have linked this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-ted-chiang-transcript.html

"It’s capitalism that wants to reduce costs and reduce costs by laying people off. It’s not that like all technology suddenly becomes benign in this world. But it’s like, in a world where we have really strong social safety nets, then you could maybe actually evaluate sort of the pros and cons of technology as a technology, as opposed to seeing it through how capitalism is going to use it against us. How are giant corporations going to use this to increase their profits at our expense?"

On 4/19/21 8:01 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Ha! Sure. ... it still looks like SteveS called it with the Red Queen's Race. Even if such tech solves more problems than it creates, it'll still be distributed according to the power structures in place (e.g. rich people) when the tech's ready to scale.
> 
> On 4/19/21 7:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Again technology to the rescue...   Nanotechnology for desalinization.   
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ???
>> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 7:45 AM
>> To: friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: [FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets)
>>
>> Copper? Natural gas? Pffft! Water's the interesting one.
>>
>> https://theconversation.com/interstate-water-wars-are-heating-up-along-with-the-climate-159092
>>
>> And another one:
>> https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article250595449.html
>>
>> On 4/15/21 7:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
>>> Another good example is water rights across states given watersheds, 
>>> flood irrigation, etc. 
>>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-water-one-per
>>> centers>
>>>
>>> So, the question you're asking (how might "storage" in BTC be less preferable to other assets?) isn't really answerable *without* first discussing what that reservoir is *for*, what end does it serve?
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