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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days ago just like we don’t use communal bath houses, or community heating, or unfortunately mass transit Spas and apartments and buses/trains do absolutely exist. Only the former is considered “luxury” in the US, though. Yes, group services can be a lot more efficient and more reliable but they’re also out of your control Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit to effectively buy everyone’s roofs and lease them back for a fraction of their real market value? I don’t think you escape “Own nothing and be happy” just by throwing up a few hundred watts of solar on an extension cord.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days ago Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit …. Yes there were and still are too many scammers. Sometimes I think that’s held the industry back even more than the price. If we had any consumer protections, it would blow up the installer industry. That doesn’t change my point
Spas and apartments and buses/trains do absolutely exist. Only the former is considered “luxury” in the US, though.
Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit to effectively buy everyone’s roofs and lease them back for a fraction of their real market value?
I don’t think you escape “Own nothing and be happy” just by throwing up a few hundred watts of solar on an extension cord.
Yes there were and still are too many scammers. Sometimes I think that’s held the industry back even more than the price. If we had any consumer protections, it would blow up the installer industry.
That doesn’t change my point