Something like 40% of our electricty in the UK is from renewables - on some days it’s 100%! There are days where we’re having to pay wind farms to NOT generate electricity as we already have an oversupply. I honestly don’t see energy supply as a bottleneck for EV uptake.

I’m not coming from a defence of capitalism. I’m just pointing out that people have had to work in some capacity to live all throughout history. People would still need to work to live under any system.

Are there any other systems, or point in history, where a country’s population could live without working?

Americans seem allergic to showing a simple single payable amount that the customer pays. It must be exhausting. It must be like trying to book RyanAir tickets, but with everything.

I guess I’m just being lazy in not fishing my phone out to then move it onto the next episode, expecting it to roll over any second like it used to. Then I’ll wait expecting it to change any second, and repeat.

I think Netflix still does this but there’s a couple of others that show the titles each episode.

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