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Losing Our Energy Slaves

Losing Our Energy Slaves

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Energy Slaves: every American has somewhere between 200 and 8,000 energy slaves

Energy Slaves: every American has somewhere between 200 and 8,000 energy slaves Source: https://www.homesthatfit.com/how-precious-is-energy-ask-your-slaves/ Preface.  To give you an idea of what energy slaves are, consider what it would take to use human power to provide these: How much energy does it take to toast a single slice of Bread? Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can […]

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Energy slaves, “hard work,” and the real sources of wealth

Energy slaves, “hard work,” and the real sources of wealth Many Canadians and Americans struggle financially.  Millions are unemployed.  Many others live paycheque-to-paycheque.  A 2017 report by the US Federal Reserve Board found that 40 percent of US citizens couldn’t cover an unexpected expense of $400 without selling something or borrowing money.  There’s a lot […]

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Thoughts of a Modern-day Slaveholder

Thoughts of a Modern-day Slaveholder For all intents and purposes, we are the beneficiaries of a slave economy. We may have exchanged human chattel for the energy slaves contained in a barrel of oil and the machines that consume it, but the economics work out the same and we can’t walk away without giving up […]

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Trump and Berlusconi: harbinger of the coming Seneca Cliff

Trump and Berlusconi: harbinger of the coming Seneca Cliff Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi have many similarities as country leaders. I argue here that they are the symptom of a giant political transition which is reversing the trends that started more than two centuries ago with the French revolution.  Human rights have a cost and […]

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Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us?

Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us? We normally assume that anything that creates jobs is a good thing, but is it, really? Is our current prosperity related to having “jobs”? Isn’t it, rather, the result of the large number of “energy slaves” working for us in the form […]

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