Thank you for your incredibly detailed and informative reply. These are ideas on which everyone should educate themselves.

Definitely, we need to rethink all of these matters: how we produce items, how we consume energy, the relations between producers and consumers, relations between countries, and how social, economic, and political capital are circulated throughout society. I am not a numbers or engineering person, so I leave the details to informed people like you, on how we need to drill down into these questions of how we use and circulate resources. You raise some very interesting observations about the use of solar power that I suspect can also be applied to other aspects of social life and commerce.

My field of philosophy is very poor in connecting with other areas of study, though I would hope that more philosophers would be open to people like you who have much to offer. I recently said to a colleague that philosophers are best at providing frameworks in which to explain things and concepts to better understand things. But not in the sense of condescending to other fields but working with experts in other fields, learning from those experts on how to craft better concepts and frameworks, then applying them to real-world problems. It’s that real-world connection that philosophers oddly balk at.

Given what you wrote, would you agree with the idea of a universal basic income that would empower people to engage with their own business activities?

Again, thanks so much for your excellent comments.