I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy. So long also as we are able to continually access said digital copies. We wouldn’t be having this physical vs digital debate going on for so long, if the practices of what companies like Sony and other media companies have been going about with handling digitally purchased content.
It’s a very stupid easy of a solution that has been continually fumbled time and time again. Because greed got in the way.
And we could have charged those electric vehicles with… checks notes… burned fossil fuels, just to lose efficiency for giggles.
Some y’all’s understanding of capitalism is straight childish. “There was always a better solution, but the evil capitalists held it down!”
Know why the world went with burning oil? Because it was the most bang (heh) for the buck. That simple. No evil men smoking cigars in back rooms required. Now we have better tech and can move on, but that wasn’t the case until recently.
Yes, in your utopian little world, we all could have worked together for the better solutions from the start. Oh, wait… would those solutions have cost more and consumers would have fucked those off? It must be an evil plot! (Though is mostly is at present time.)
Funny enough, I made the perfect meme last year to describe this conversation.
The incredibly efficient ICE that loses 70%+ of generated power at peak efficiency?
The rapid advance of battery technology in just the last decade is one example of what the global fuel industry could have been, and electric cars would have kickstarted that.
You seem fun