In below video the fact is lamented that renewable stimulus money goes to china where the wind turbines are being build. The ‘jobs go to China’ and local jobs are only 300. But the benefits of a windfarm is not in the jobs the building creates, if that was so the turbines would be made so they require much maintenance, and the energy per turbine would be minimized so many had to be build. This is the big lie of economics, that it is about jobs. It is not.
The real benefits of a windfarm is cheap electricity. This electricity can be used for production, making fertilizers and keeping people warm in their homes. The energy cost makes businesses possible. The more energy is blown onto the grid, the easier it becomes to use electric vehicles, run electric machines and use electricity for recycling and stuff that now requires fossil input..The future will not have many jobs, because machines are so well capable of making everything we need, provided we get them the energy to do that.
Renewables or slavery?
Slavery is on the rise, the term does not only cover children in sweat shops, but also inmates having to work in prison, labour that generates a significant amount of trade. You never hear complains about job losses due to the growing utilization of prisoners. One can also consider working for money under the burden of debt as slavery, because if the debt is mortgages or credit card loans, they where incurred wrongly and can never be repayed by labour as long as labour competes with fossil fueled machines.
The choice seems to be between a managed division between forced labour in prisons to serve free citizens in a carbon based economy, or a renewable powered situation where we can let automation rip without haveing to competitively allocate energy to it. Right now you compete for fuel (in the end product form of food and products) with the machines that make those products. In the eyes of the producers production comes first, and consumers compete for their means of production!
"Private prisons are the biggest business in the prison industry complex. About 18 corporations guard 10,000 prisoners in 27 states. The two largest are Correctional Corporation of America (CCA) and Wackenhut, which together control 75%. Private prisons receive a guaranteed amount of money for each prisoner, independent of what it costs to maintain each one. According to Russell Boraas, a private prison administrator in Virginia, "the secret to low operating costs is having a minimal number of guards for the maximum number of prisoners."
"Profits are so good that now there is a new business: importing inmates with long sentences, meaning the worst criminals. When a federal judge ruled that overcrowding in Texas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment, the CCA signed contracts with sheriffs in poor counties to build and run new jails and share the profits. According to a December 1998 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, this program was backed by investors from Merrill-Lynch, Shearson-Lehman, American Express and Allstate, and the operation was scattered all over rural Texas."
A good way to reduce government spending dan decapitalize financial institutions would be to declare a general amnesty fo non violent convicts?
The renewable solution
Renewables would break this link between what people need and what producers need. Both would be able to generate what they needed themselves, and both would be able to exchange the products without to much tension, like you would eat apples and not fight over them if they came from a public orchard that was full of them. Renewables create a new paradigm the old economy can not deal with. Therefore we propose people learn about teh Robo(eco)nomy