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Consciousness of Sheep
Personal blog · consciousnessofsheep.co.ukeconomicspolitics
Consciousness of Sheep is a personal blog at consciousnessofsheep.co.uk about economics and politics. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on economic crisis and profitability. Commenters quote its claim that the 1970s oil shock was artificial and cite its 'crisis of profitability' argument. No judgement of the writing is given.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
'Growth' is 'coming to an end'? "The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused…
Comment linking /2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
on “Death by hockey sticks”Submitted The Complexity Trap as a story · 39 points
HN discussion"The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did…
Comment linking /2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
on “Death by hockey sticks”Submitted Is This Peak Gas? as a story · 36 points
HN discussionBut yet monopolies and cutting labor costs are likely to be the main type of innovation that are possible (mostly, there is still technological change happening) due to the ongoing crisis of profitability: https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2021/05/06/a-crisis-of-pr...
Comment linking /2021/05/06/a-crisis-of-profitability/
on “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy startups could release”Submitted Days of Reckoning (Why the UK energy cap failed) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Empires Die as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The purpose of the system (UK's economic crisis) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The March of Folly (about the UK energy crisis) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Reboot Britain? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Telling Lies to Power as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reality Bites as a story · 1 points
HN discussion