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The uber rich decide the laws and control the government and security forces though so that will never happen.

Instead you end up with hypocritical rules against normal people like in the lockdowns where you could still travel abroad if owned multiple houses, etc. - like now how the EU has introduced fuel duty on airlines, but not on private jets.

And reducing supply lines leads to supply-side inflation like we're seeing in Europe now - 10+% inflation, interest rates going up, possible rationing coming in winter, etc. - no-one wants that.

I'd just try not to worry about it, we can't change anything anyway. Just focus on what you can do yourself, like trying to work remotely to buy a house in a less affected area, etc.

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> I could go 10 years without electricity, nearly everybody could

During the power crisis in Texas in February 2021 some homes and businesses were without power for several days, resulting in at least 246 deaths, with some estimates as high as 702 killed as a result of the crisis.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power

False equivalency. I did not suggest waiting for extreme conditions of inclement weather before pulling the electricity out from under intensive care units without notice. We have this tool we can use to mitigate anything like that from happening. It's called a plan.

I replied to the wrong comment, but you found it anyways...

Ah, righteo, a plan. You did write immeidately and by force, which sounded less like a plan.

You should have assumed the opposite. How many successful military operations are you aware of that were not planned, and/or that waited around and took their sweet time?

All people need some form of energy every day, at least for cooking their food, and in most modern houses, also for preserving their food.

In my case, that energy must be provided as electricity, or else I would starve.

Other people might be able to substitute something else for electricity, e.g. they might have access to a forest, to collect wood and burn it for cooking, and they might make food reserves that can be kept at the ambient temperature, e.g. pemmican.

Those people might not need electricity, but they are not less dependent of an energy source for staying alive, than the people who need electricity every day.

I certainly use less electrical energy every day (less than 200 W average power for the entire house) than the energy that would be consumed by someone burning wood for the same purpose.

The people who do not cook at home and are not less dependent on electricity or another source of energy for staying alive, they just pay someone else to cook for them, while consuming the same energy elsewhere.

Yeah, again, you are imagining something like a Mad Max post apocalyptic scenario where everyone is left to fend for themselves or starve, but we can feed everyone very efficiently without any electricity or heat if we just planned it.

What? How would you cook the food without heat? How would you grow and harvest the food without Electricity. Sure it could be done in limited amounts, but to feed the worlds population without electricity, its not possible.

Even if you someone magically found a way to harvest all the food by hand, How would you distribute to everyone? Without electricity our highly efficient distributions systems don't work.

I could make a plan to launch myself into outer space. Doesn't mean my plan will work. It also doesn't mean that the people that my plan will inconvenience are just okay with it.

Sorry neighbors I need to build a launch tower here I'm taking over your backyards, you can have them back in a few years its okay, its part of the plan.

I guess astronauts don't eat, huh. The only thing that needs cooked is meat. No one at all needs to eat meat.

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