@alex_callinicos profits & instead thinks in terms of gov investment but doesnt know its never been lower postwar. and he needs to look at what has been happening to non-ip corp invesment for his story to make any sense, hint its down so it doesnt
@alex_callinicos no, very confusing. he says profits drive investment but deficits dont drive profits. he says:⬇️labor share, ⬆️profits,⬆️investment,⬆️deficits. Doesnt clarify how. His narrative excludes ⬆️deficits lead to ⬆️ profits lead to ⬆️investment bc he doesnt link gov deficit to corp
@whatsup589_@Wooflexis the uk has a hard job bc most of their heating is with NG fuelled circulating water radiators and they can do it and home hot water with a heat pump but the install costs are high bc its complicated and you still end up w higher bills than keeping your gas
@whatsup589_@Wooflexis I am not in us and was supposing that all heating and cooling came from electric rather than NG etc sources for ease of comparing emissions from each
@matthewstoller im not opposed to competitive (tendered) as opposed to merchant tx &the report's incomplete but 1 there are few of them 2 they are bigger. that is the only factor that matters really. we'll see when its actually published but I would bet that more than explains all the difference
@JacobAShell no it would say you should organize workers where you are we cant just fly to shenzen and try to tell them to do revolution in english it wouldnt even work. the conservatives dont distinguish bc theyre dumb and incurious& it suits them
@ts_fisher@JigarShahDC 'a bunch of cranks did insanely dubious studies in the 1960s & I just believied it'—you. have you read the primeaux papers? they are so loose in data&method as to be unusable. you can have nice little ideas about competition but its not a serious way to run an electricity system
@ts_fisher@JigarShahDC im not the one who is 'spewing nonsense'—you have no adequate response to the notion of natural monopoly, just a bunch of fake talking points from the 60s. vc man understands, modernising's massively cheaper if done at the scale of the grid not via 100k piddling private projects
@ts_fisher i hate it when people are in thrall to the stupid unworkable ideas of yesteryear when we have no time at all to be distracted by them in the project of modernizing the damn grid
@ts_fisher i may not have followers but Im not a submental peddling cockamamie cures for the very real problems on the grid that meaningfully impact peoples lives becuase im in thrall (and paid by) an ideologie that's completly incompatible with a functional electricity system
@JoyceCarolOates Pauline Kael has a good essay on the airless stylishness of la notte and l'année dernière à marienbad that is very fun to read: https://t.co/bNgP1kjjhH