#[0]​ posted a Hayek clip that got me reading some of his work. I found this quote from Adam Smith in “The Road to Serfdom” and found it relevant to the debate I see nocoiners trying harder to make, regarding electricity usage. If miners want to employ capital to pay for electricity, they should be allowed to.

“The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they out to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself to exercise it.”