[m463]

On the other hand, electricity pricing is a construct. To some extent it is designed so that you do worry and limit use of a shared resource.

I think other utilities like internet service adopt this construct, then monetize worry to get you to pay a little more for all-you-can-eat.

There's an interesting quote from a former chairman of the atomic energy commission:

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter

[nannal]

Can you imagine being that hopeful about the future, I know a lot of people are opting not to have children due to the environmental nightmare those children would have to survive.

[astrange]

That's more relative than absolute expectations, or maybe you just know a lot of neurotic people.

Even if climate change is as bad as WW2 (doubtful over the same time scale), people still had children then, and they still had children when every city was covered in a foot of horse poop, all your kids died at 14 and doctors didn't believe in handwashing. In fact they had more!

[imtringued]

As you have less children you put more resources into each child.

[astrange]

Aren't we talking about not having any kids at all here?

It takes a bit less than 3x resources to have 3 kids though, since they share things.

[m463]

also, children at some point might be might be like factorio, where the early ones start gathering resources for the later ones :)

[Robotbeat]

I am hopeful about the future, and I am training my children up to be assets in the fight against climate change and poverty.

[m463]

I like the book "the rational optimist" by matt riddley.