It’s also due to social inertia.
Power companies charge by the kWh because their generators are measured in total output wattage and consumers consume at different wattages at different times.
Sure, it would be easier to measure in total joules consumed per period time but it would also be easier to measure with world standard metric units. The pain of changing is harder than staying the same, so muh freedum units.
I read the Endymion half of the Hyperion Cantos this year I think the whole series is tied for my favorite Sci Fi series, right next to the Expanse books.
1- Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
1- Expanse series by James S A Corey
3- Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor
Honorable mentions: Fatherland by Robert Harris; Consider Phelbas by Iain M Banks
Does Sanders have enough life left in him to develop a far-left party? How will it differ from the existing left-leaning third-parties? How would the party stand out and “matter?” Relevant XKCD
I ask these things as a perennially disappointed minarchist classical liberal.
To be fair, capitalism seeks the lowest market clearance price. Until price hikes start showing a lower net return, prices will go up.
Not that I care, me cap’n’s hat never left the boat.
You think so? Earth and the Sun are only about 5 billion years old, or 1/3 the age of the universe. Life is estimated to have appeared on Earth about 4 billion years ago.
Under the law of averages, life could have independently developed and reached comparable maturity to Earth at least two other, non-concurrent times. We’re third generation at best.