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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:38:17 +0200
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On 7/11/24 16:55, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:31 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:29:33 +0100
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The problem is that Socialists mistake 'job creation' with 'wealth
>>> creation'
>>>
>>
>> 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
>> 7.5 billion dollars on EV charging stations, with only seven stations
>> functional after three years. It's the money spent which matters.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

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

Jeroen Belleman