Tech bros bewildered
"Why did it take humanity 200,000 years to exhibit modern behavior?"
Ignorance among some “educated” tech bros is shocking to me - a college drop-out. But, it does explain why many are easily swept up in the climate hoax.
I saw this on X yesterday. At first I thought he was kidding. He wasn’t.
The answer to the question is simple:
Oil. A barrel of oil is = about 25,000 hours of man work. As soon as humans had the capacity to leverage it, things boomed.
Everyday mankind gets the benefit of two trillion five hundred billion hours of work from oil alone.
It’s almost impossible to grasp the benefits mankind received from this hated resource.
The invention that best unleashed that stored power - the Diesel engine.
Rudolph Diesel was a contemporary of Edison and his contribution to civilization was far greater, but few even know his name.
Oil’s stored power combined with the reliable and massively productive Diesel engine changed how we live, eat, work, ship goods, travel, and conduct war.
Check out the thread to see the amusing and clueless replies https://x.com/amasad/status/1741294479410393185?s=20
Happy New Year!
'Rudolph diesel daddy cool' as the guys from Donut Media call him. Ironic that he effectively helped achieved globalisation yet the globalists now denounce diesel. No sign of any ships running on solar or wind yet.
I was very happy with my gifts of meat, diesel wood and coal. Kept me fed, warm and able to see family. Naughty me.
I wonder if any of these people realise how much of their 'stuff' is derived from oil?
GDP as a proxy for "modern behavior?" I think that's his problem. If you use GDP as the "proxy" for what it really measures -- productivity -- then it's obvious that oil (or, simply, energy) is the answer, and why nuclear is the next step in this evolution.