It would have to be a sort of reputation-economics with teeth, not just mere-opinion…

Parasitism, whether scalpers of event-tickets, or gunmen who appear to sell the water from the oasis, etc, who do it for their faction’s profit, instead of “this is a communal-resource: & we’re limiting the single-user exploitation, & we’re making-certain that the commons isn’t trashed by any faction” type thing…

is a rude fact of life, among humankind.

Making it systemically-illegal, with teeth is possible, but … that is far far far from the ideology of the gift-economy, isn’t it…

( like the difference between being a Healer vs being a doctor: 1 is centered in others’ healing, the other is centered in their own authority * status

( dad was a medical-researcher, doctor, & later prof of medicine, ttbomk: any doctor who wants to claim that those aren’t the motivations can go read the book by researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright, on the 5 culture-levels “Tribal Leadership”, & notice that doctors are centered in the zero-sum-game of narcissism. Still reject my claim of evidence? Go walk into any normal hospital, & see what percentage of the lower-staff people have enough human-validity left in them, to meet your gaze, if you walk-in wearing a suit. It’ll be close to none, because their human-validity is already corroded by the doctors. THE most-spectacular narcissism-bodylanguage I’ve ever seen, consistently is on doctors. The difference between a Healer & a doctor is significant. They are not the same kind of thing, at all. ) )

I actually suspect that both paradigms are necessary, for any actual-world-economy…

Who would do the nastiest-jobs except for pay?

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A decade or more ago, on the Low Tech website ( which I still find ironic ), I pointed-out that a solar-concentrator is THE ideal method for roasting the ingredients of cement, instead of using conventional/fossil energy.

Use solar-concentrator for the roasting, you can reach any temperature you want, I think the way to make solar-concentrators not kill birds ( flash-incineration ) is with either sound they don’t like, or with making a dome over the entire site, & just putting a sparse “spiderweb” of fiberglass strands over it, so as to keep them away.

So long as the concentrator is still able to work, it’d be good-enough, & it would detach cement-manufacturing from the conventional energy-sources, for the heat.

( moving the materials would still cost electricity, but that’s minor, compared with the roasting )

I realized part of what was unconsciously-bugging-me about it…

A commercial-pilot, who owns their own bushplane,

who serves the North,

who is self-employed,

would be banned, by this kind of law.

It’s their private jet ( turboprop ),

therefore it would be banned.

That would gut the communities they serve.

Beware of how the authority-over-others-drug “makes” people create sloppy legislation, how it “makes” people create sloppy interpretations of legislation, & enforce sloppy/abusive renditions of legislation.

Reduce, Reuse, last Recycle, right?

Reduction is supposed to be 1st, as it’s the most effective.

Carbon-capture development burns fossil fuels, then slightly-reduces the emissions…

It is a red herring.

Necessary, for those small cases where fossil fuels need to remain ( but unworkable, for, say, long-haul jets, or long-haul trucks in cold climates, or the ability to cook in remote & cold places with no sun… )

Junkies, especially corporate junkies … tend to comply only when forced to do so.

Addiction is simply so completely beyond reason’s reach, that pretending that reason is going to sway people in time is … itself delusion.

I’ve got an instinctive aversion to category-bans with political motivation…

Then I remembered helicopters.

Sure, ban private jets, which burn fuel fast, but not private helicopters, which burn more fuel per minute than you would believe…

Why stop at jets?

Why not ban private piston-planes?

Why not ban private vehicles, all of them?

Surely that’d cut down waaay more than just private jets would?

Shouldn’t farmers use the bus to get their produce to the city??

Politically motivated sledgehammer-to-crack-a-walnut stuff just doesn’t work right, for me.

Enforcing prison-time for corporate executives who lie in court, on their taxes, in their broadcasts, that would probably do significantly more than banning private jets.

Enforcing objective factuality in corporate communications would, if it had teeth, put a fair number of corporate disinformation-pushers in prison, and would possibly remove much propaganda from our world.

I can definitely see the advantage in being able to get from workplace to workplace quickly, without hassle…

There was a “Yes Minister” episode, where a newly-elected minister was shamed for using a driver & driven-car, so he began driving himself, iirc, and he lost the ability to work while commuting, significantly damaging his productivity…

… as intended.

Keep in mind that different categories of work have categorically-different boundaries:

Welders have to move their gear, have to get to the work, have to do the work, have to get away from the work, but you can’t do welding without welding-gear, right?

& not that much changes between jobs, re welding ( that Japanese company who made MIG titanium wire, through a powder-metal process, … they never made it available, so … nice news, but it didn’t change anything, right? )…

Whereas, if you’re ears-deep in specialized knowledge, and the more hours per day you spend studying your domain’s specialized stuff, either job-specific, or advances earned by others, you are working.

Therefore, working-while-commuting is nonsensical for welders, pipefitters, masons, etc, but it is normal for knowledge-workers.

Tax the rich: that’d do more good than this, and if you won’t tax the rich, but continue taxing the working-poor, then it’s just political bullshit/grandstanding.