@donaldball @patrickleavy @pluralistic

Rather than "maladaptive capitalism", I think solar is a great example of how complex it is to get the right balance between public goods and private markets.

"Imagine if these AI investments had instead been put into solar"... People tried to do this. Power companies could not and still can't build the required infrastructure fast enough. And before we blame that on capitalism, the not-for-profit Canadian Crown corporations that run power in several provinces also haven't been able to do this.

The US Interconnection Queue is twice its installed capacity. Billions of dollars have been put into power plants that are just sitting there waiting for local power companies to connect them. But nobody's going to put another $100 billion into building capacity while you're still waiting for the first hundred billion to come online.

Scratching the surface here, but the lack of solar has little to do with capitalism.