OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

Douglas Adams. You left out the bit where residual population of Golgafrinchia was all killed off by a plague that was transferred by telephone ear-pieces, which would have been prevent if the telephone sanitisers had stayed behind.

Cursitor Doom and John Larkin aren't infallible judges of social utility. They don't know much, and a lot of what they think they know is flat-out wrong.

Not everybody is as ignorant as you are, and I probably know more about Baruch Spinoza than I know about Karl Marx.

Do try. Granting the technical expertise you exhibit here, you are likely to blow your own head off in the process.

Probably true. You do seem to have lived a remarkably pointless life.

No, it isnt. Its actually the most efficient form of creating wealth until it gets into contact with governments.

The problem is that Socialists mistake 'job creation' with 'wealth creation'

No, it's a unit of energy, approximately 3400 BTU and exactly 3.6 million joules.

It's worse than that. Socialists don't know what wealth creation is.

And many problems are rooted in the fact that socialists measure the success of a policy in terms of how much (other peoples') money is spent on it, not in terms of what it achieves.

So nobody in the US government is at all bothered by the spending of

But don’t forget that the whole remaining population of Golgofrincham was wiped out by a virulent plague contracted from a dirty telephone. Think of the children!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Another one of the Natural Philosopher's dogmatic delusions.

Governments preceded capitalism, so capitalism has never been out of contact with government. Without government, any accumulation of capital gets ripped off by the local warlord, so some level of government to enforce property rights is a necessary condition for any form of capitalism.

What on earth makes you think that?

You've been reading too much right-wing propaganda.

Seems unlikely. Evidence?

I see quite a few Tesla's driving around my bit of Sydney, which does suggest that we have rather more than seven functional EV charging stations. The 80-apartment block in which I live has a couple of Tesla's parked in the basement. There is a plan to add charging points to the parking area, but it hasn't happened yet, so there must be open access charging stations around to look after them.

Only if you believe what you read in ZeroHedge.

It would certainly be a waste of time for Cursitor Doom to try to be polite to me - not that he seems to know how.

Some of the people who post here don't seem to be able to post anything that doesn't deserve sneering contempt.

Cursitor Doom does seem to a member of that group. John Larkin can do better, but feels hurt when the approbation he gets doesn't live up to his expectations. Most of his contributions barely make it to adequate, and he seems to think that he deserves fulsome flattery for every offering.

Wealth is the thing that allows human resources to be invested long-term, and not all burned up right now.

Marx was a moron. "Capital" is just a symptom of what really matters, which is ideas.

Communist countries crush ideas, which is why they are so poor.

It would be tough, a world without house cleaners and barristas and supermarket shelf-stockers.

Read a sociology textbook some time. I did. Well, I got through most of it.

The government will spend a billion dollars per functioning charging station? I see a business opportunity!

Jeroen Belleman

Ideas are good, but not enough. Someone will have to do the work, too. Who said 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration? Edison?

Jeroen Belleman

The company I once worked for had 40(ish) years ago a phone sanitising company come in. They went around every desk sprayed the mouthpiece and wiped it dry with a cloth. It was the same cloth used on all phones. Possibly much more of a risk of contamination than not having it done at all. It was a one off possibly as a lot of staff complaining it was a complete waste of money.

Ideas generate money. Money doesn't generate ideas.

A good idea often starts in a garage (or lately, a dorm room) with hardly any capital. It creates jobs and industries.

HP, Microsoft, google, Facebook, and the first airplane started very small.

Yes, governments create business opportunities. We have a billion-dollar homeless industry in San Francisco, and it keeps growing.

Capital is just a symbol of co-operation. Capital is a group of people putting their pennies together to pay another group of people to do something no one can afford to do on their won.

Communism is a group of people taking all the money from another group of people to pay them do do something that benefits no one except the people who took the money..

They crush individual initiative,

Apple! Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak also started in a garage IIRC.

I'm right with you. I have the schematics for charger that can't fail and only want 100 million in exchange for my design.