Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by igorramazanov on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:08PM (#47970929)

I've heard an opinion that having less people leads to a technological regression, because some things to create/research are so expensive that they become profitable and functioning only at the world's scale

E.g. China is too small to have an isolated closed market for a competitive and efficient semiconductors manufactoring

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by PearlRiver on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:45AM (#47971379)

No it is just that capitalism is a cancer. Nobody has actually cracked the code on how capitalism can work without perpetual growth.

Leaders are looking at Japan and they are panicking. Fascists are demanding more white babies.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by throw-the-towel on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:12AM (#47973402)

FYI, socialism also cannot work without infinite growth.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by amanaplanacanal on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:13AM (#47975035)

Large scale socialism maybe. It seems to work fine in small hunter gatherer bands.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by margalabargala on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:59AM (#47976305)

Socialism works fine without infinite growth.

The problem isn't that it requires infinite growth, the problem is that as the scale increases the drag effect of those who consume more resources than they contribute grows faster than resource availability grows. There's a maximum size limit that's based on things like cultural sense of responsibility.

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