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[–] 17 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

No I mean not tender for private contracts to do this. Actually do this in a nationalised way.

Setup a department, NIS (the afore mentioned National Insulation Service), with the motto warmth at the point of use, build a workforce that goes town by town coldest to hottest parts of the country and adds the required missing insulation to however many homes need it starting with low income homes.

Everyone is so keen on nationalising everything so why not kickstart this and do some good. I say the same thing about home building. Set up a government home building project entirely run by government employees funded by the state. I can understand how there would be NIMBY protectionism against that (can't build that here you'll lower the value of my mansion) but who would argue against insulation?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    I love it. It makes sense if your goal is to improve the lives of the public and save money long term.

    What it doesn't do is improve GDP (this would actually have a negative effect) or enrich more billionaires. That sort of thing doesn't tend to play well in this country.

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    To be fair, I say this not to demotivate you, but to point out that the problem isn't innovation, or money, or as many in this country seem to think, immigrants. It's not even landlords.

    The problem is that we've organised our society around the wrong incentives. If we're serious about fixing this problem (and I think your "NIS" is a great idea!) we have to approach it with the understanding that building an NIS must start ith abandoning our bad models and ridiculing those that insist it can be done within the existing system.

    We don't necessarily need a communist revolution, but we do need to be honest about Why We Can't Have Nice Things and begin the work of building systems that allow for them while dismantling ones that prevent them.

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