Money is amazingly influential to the extent it stands in for the real goods and services it might be traded for, and that’s the wealth, what it’s good for. Gold is worth something because it’s shiny, doesn’t corrode, is a good conductor. Beads. Jewelry. All forms of tradable item.
Currencies collapse. Money has value only because we can exchange it for something of actual value. What that boils down to is energy shaped to our life and living standards advantage in some way.
Money does not convert to electrical power absent power plants and batteries. Money does not convert into healthcare sans trained personnel and medical knowledge etc. etc. Money is uniquely worthless in terms of what it gets you when it becomes detached from what it represents, the promise of some kind of work on your or someone else’s behalf.
Saying our global microcosm, the planet, is solar powered, has little to do with the price of solar panels.
Life on earth runs on solar frequencies (photo-synthesis) and all those terawatts provide our heat source. Way beyond our ability to afford or create for ourselves as workers of the world.
The amount of energy coming to planet earth moment by moment, powering the water cycles, making hydropower possible, is nothing we could ever possibly pay for or pay back. Or daily energy budget is not a loan, and our…
