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Cake day: August 2nd, 2024

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  • Basically the government has been taken over by the fascist military, foreign reserves are already non existent, Pakistan is one of those countries who asks the IMF for a loan every few years, inflation is rising and the bill for electricity is going through the roof cuz god knows how they calculate it. Not to mention, it also has a huuuuge load shedding issue which means it’s not uncommon to lose electricity for 6-12 hours everyday and now Pakistan also has natural gas load shedding.

    Soooooooooo, these solar systems pay back their investment much much earlier than other countries I think. Keep in mind that people already don’t waste electricity or water or gas cuz of load shedding and high prices. So it’s considerably cheaper to move houses to fully solar.

    It’s funny how much wastage is there in western countries, iirc the carbon footprint of the average person in a third world country is roughly 10 times lower than developed countries.





  • I think it is because we humans are not rational.

    In a free market society, over time, every seller would charge for their service as much as they can. And the service they themselves use, will in turn charge them as much as they can.

    This would be an optimal system, if only humans were rational creatures. When prices for a service increase too much, we should stop using it and go for alternatives, which would create more incentives for competition to grow and prices to come down etc.

    But i think, we don’t think rationally. Sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we still do it cuz of lack of self control or other reasons.