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Aaron Bastani is thinking about automated luxury…communism?

The TED Interview

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The Third Disruption in the Solar Industry

In the last several years, we've reached a point where solar energy in some parts o the world is now the cheapest energy that's ever been generated by humans anywhere ever. We see that sort of, with a doubling of the production of these things, ata their costs fall. And this has been going on for a long time, but for some reason, it's a relatively recent sort of realization and extrapolate this going forward. It means quite significant changes in the economics of these things. But i really think, if you look at solar since two thousand 10s in particular, it's obvious. I think it's gong to be the backbone of global energyproduction for the next

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