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WFH, in new insulated houses, with p.v./eolic systems do reduce much energy consumption, only it not a widespread thing and can't be so far. That's the real computation error.

If you carefully read what neoliberals have published about green new deal and great reset you'll discover the "new urban agenda", where essentially reading under the trees you found a neofeudal society vision where rich-enough people who can afford substantial autonomy will happily live in modern homes while most, the "new poor", are concentrated in prisons called smart cities, try to compare just

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/why-greeces-ex...

with

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/how-w... https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/34827717.html https://youtu.be/p-9X8Z2kJt8

Did you see differences? What I see is a stereotypical ancient Greek "useful idiot" with an "idiotic smile" (sorry for being rude, my poor English limit my choice of words) like the one you see here https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... happily living in a sarcophagus, receiving a porridge of mixed grains and crushed insects by a drone, living to work as he/she is told to. Those who can afford being "outside" will benefit from such work doing a hopefully somewhat happy life. Not much differently than the colonial period of slavery where westerns people elicit big benefit from slave work in the colonies, in that case slaves where from ALL the world and just few benefit from them. Nothing really new under the Sun.



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