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Nice idea - I was trying to use ChatGPT for this, but your website is much better!


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It's not the Chinese people, they are in general awesome people. It's the CCP.


How about the market for private solar energy systems? Must be experiencing a massive boom


Lebanon, "massive boom". Poor choice of words. Or an accidental darkly humourous pun.


It's starting to kick off, several households are implementing it, it costs $5k+ here which given the current situation isn't the top priority But honestly I do hope we reach a point where private solar and wind take over the main grid and the generators


But $10 solar panels enough to charge a phone and laptop presumably are in widespread use?


Can you please show me an example product? personally I wired my router to a power bank so the internet stays up


This kind of thing:

US $9.50 5V 1200mA 6Watt Battery Charger USB port DC 5.5*2.1 Charge Regulators Solar Panel 6W https://a.aliexpress.com/_u842IG

Probably won't be sufficient for a router, but it would charge a battery bank or phone pretty well (make sure it's angled 30 degrees south, and use a usb battery bank between it and the phone because the phone usually won't adjust the charging current up and down as clouds come over). For laptops, use a power bank with a laptop 19v output.


International transactions are pretty hard in Lebanon the government constantly puts restrictions on dollar accounts and other accounts that can process international transfers.

Many payments services are also unavailable in Lebanon for various reasons.

If you are in a position to order things from Alibaba or eBay you are already pretty well off and anything sold locally would be sold at a very steep markup.


The basket of goods they use to adjust for inflation does not usually include house prices, which have sky-rocketed in the last few decades.


In those kinds of debates about whether labour is more or less 'exploited' than they used to be, it's easiest to just ignore inflation:

Look at the fraction of GDP that goes to labour, capital and land at any point in time. No need to adjust for inflation this way.

Or viewed another way: you are adjusting for inflation, but your basket is the entire GDP, which you arbitrarily set to 1.


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