| > The Spanish blackout, singular, last year was a cascading control plane faillure - i.e. independent of resource allocation. Texas failed to prepare for predictable winter storms - i.e. a market failure. No Spain failed to plan for green energy intermittency which led to cascading failure. They did not have enough base load power. Another country bad at planning is UK: https://watt-logic.com/2026/07/02/neso-cutting-exports-durin... So we have Germany, UK and Spain managing their grid poorly. All government managed. > A communist planned economy produced the same result as capitalism, and did it faster, from a worse starting point. Capitalism is not tied to democracy. Read up on market reforms of China before being a smart ass. China has more free market competition domestically than any developed economy, which is why their EVs are so cheap or practically anything they make. The government making high level plans on how their economy gets developed is entirely normal for every major economy and has been done in the US and EU, they just regressed at it while China improved on it. They are the most capitalist society on earth. > You brought up the 08 crash... in defence of free-market capitalism. I can't tear my eyes off this car crash. Please, continue, I need more. Yeah now check the GDP growth of EU and US after that. We in the EU are going through a managed decline, the US lows are followed by highs and investment booms unlike anything the EU has or will ever see. |
I do expect you to entertain my counterpoint and to look it up if you don't believe me. Repeating the same wrong point makes you look insincere.
The UK built solar without storage. But since it doesn't have blackouts, that is pure whataboutism. I'll help you throw rocks at German energy policy, but it should be noted that "fuck nuclear, Russian gas is quick and cheap" is coincidentally the maximally free-market direction.
> China ... [is] the most capitalist society on earth
Lol
> [muh gfc recovery]
Lol. Doubled down on a losing hand, again. We're done.