@DaftFader 388389 wrote:
so people never ate b4 money was invented? people didn’t work to feed them selves b4? no natural occuring drugs that cost nothing? … no tribal fire dances?
even these ancient things went from barter to trade, as people wanted something what didn’t exist in their area, and its not always practical to barter some commodities as they are bulky to store, or even alive!
Tribal fire dances/gatherings can only happen when people had spare energy and resources to do this and aren’t scraping around for survival.
… and the only reason we wouldn’t have electrisity would be because atm it’s monopolised .. it actualy costs nothing to make if your not a gready cunt trying to sell it!
the coal has to be got from the ground or nuclear stations built up and guarded, this is shitty and dangerous work and people didn’t do it for free.. its still “costing” a natural often non-renewable resource.
The other problem is transmitting energy or anything else from where its made to where we use it – this still needs more resources. As the figures showed all the electric is going down south!
when electric was first invented, the power station was nearer its users so the grid wasn’t as big. In London there was Battersea, Lots Road (for the Underground), there was I think a Northmet station which wasn’t too far away from you. but they belched out smoke and polluted up the waterways so no one wanted them near their dwelllings. people like us would have to shovel coal and work on Frankenstein type switch panels to make this stuff work, or go about on bicycles to fix peoples lamps and wiring. the electric was run by a local company but all at different voltages, anything from 100-250V and both AC and DC (of course all your appliances had to be correct or they would blow up, and when you moved house you might have to change their settings or buy new ones!)
Then from about 1940 until the 1990s we actually had a “socialist” nationalised electricity industry (you still had to pay for it though) but profits were put back into research, building more pylons, power stations etc, linking up the National Grid we still use today rather than just shareholders – however our parents and grandparents decided to vote this away, which is how the greedy fuckers took over.
Ironically, EDF is still part owned by the French Government!
