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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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How to Change the Prices of Energy and Growth

If we were able to a not only carbon, but all non renewable inputs, have a tax on anything that's non renewable on human time scale. And then simultaneous, remove tax on humans. 95 % of our taxes right now are on human labor. So if we removed all those, you make 50 thousand dollars a year. You keep your 50 thousand, you don't have to pay any taxes. But if you bought an iphone, which has all kinds of a complicated, expensive machinery, metals and minerals in there, it might cost two or three thousand dollars. If we had the prices right, we would be better able to innovate in a way that is a alined with

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