> As one offs we can find a multitude of good solutions. The problem is finding affordable mass produced options for all the people who can’t afford iteresting bespoke solutions.
Exactly, because the resources actually exist but nobody can profit off it. Our economic system repeatedly drives us away from sane and coherent solutions to our problems. Maybe we should look at changing that.
I hear that argument a lot in the context of drugs -- you can't patent a natural remedy so there's no big corporation pushing for it's adoption. But concrete is not like that. The reason it's so widely used is precisely because it's easy to use widely. I mean, 2m thick stone walls are surely great if space and energy constraints allow you to put them up ...
Exactly, because the resources actually exist but nobody can profit off it. Our economic system repeatedly drives us away from sane and coherent solutions to our problems. Maybe we should look at changing that.