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If we just keep kicking the can down the road we're no better than they were.
Systems get more expensive to run over time, not less. Things need to be maintained and replaced. New things need to be built. It sucks but so would handing the next gen a system that's crumbling even further
Sacrifice implies voluntarily, right? I more specifically mean not expecting your utilities/property tax to increase at least than the rate of inflation. Being willing to vote in people who want to fund the gap left by years of others cutting things they didn't understand, because they wanted to be popular.
And because someone is going to mention data centres: your city/utility etc will have public documents about what they are spending on what and they project they will need (in many countries). Don't like how they are doing it? Ask some questions!
When are we the people who are making the decisions the youth will hate us for? For me, it's probably now. So, I'm doing my best to help steer things in a better direction.