The Great Reset (and other urban legends)

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A quick concatenation of a reasonably good video and article (article by Naomi Klein, video by Economics Explained).

I remember in some of my conversations with The_Walrus he brought up what might best called 'nerd fails' in politics or times when the autistic traits of technocrats start showing. The Great Reset seems to be a high quality example of when there's a disconnect between, I love EE for this, 'woke billionaires' and people struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food on their children's plates let alone books in their backpacks.

The World Economic Forum already had sort of TED-like presentation, it's a bit like TED is a 'poor-man's' WEF.

The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie:
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/gre ... onspiracy/

Economics Explained:

Very interesting video. The speaker has a slightly irritating voice but the content was measured and seemed reasonable.

Big issue here, as I see it, is the apparent lack of expertise. Yes, we need to invest more money in green technology, and yes, the crisis means we will need a stimulus, and yes, those two things could go together nicely... but more involvement from economists would have highlighted the issues in using green infrastructure as the only form of stimulus.

Once basic human greed is eliminated -- and the concurrent "gaming" of the System by greedy capitalists -- it seems likely that just about any economic system will work.

Some of this makes me wonder what forms of assistance we have for emergency technology when trying to cross hurdles like lock-in. For example I've watched a few different videos on the Ambri calcium-antimony batteries, the ways in which lithium ion batteries are really built for hand-held devices, minimal size, etc., and these qualifications have nothing to do with what's needed for something like building in storage for power generated by wind, solar, and intermittent source in general, that is even though it's a bit of a type mismatch to try holding power with lithium ion batteries they're a matured technology with a matured production infrastructure whereas Ambri with the calcium-atimony is still trying to bring something new to market and the costs are not quite so competitive at the moment precisely because of that and it seems like it was just really good luck that a company like Terrascale was willing to give them a try. That's one place where there's a bit of impractical inequality - ie. what might be a superior product for a particular domain of application has difficulty breaking into a market.