I am not often hyped about self sustainability. I'd rather use the market to get things I can't produce very well and produce by using my unique abilities. It is called specialization.
The problem is when the centrally planned providers are controlled by insane people. Then it is more than sane to invest your capital to production capacity and become independent of the central planners. The paradox is that because I can't build lightweight nuclear reactor, I need to build renewables, which is what the central planners wanted to push towards anyway.
By accepting the central planners are insane and taking production in your own hands, you do what they want. This has quite the Scanner Darkly vibes...
sorry for the bird app reference, I don't know how to copy a thread very well.
at least giving a preview.
