The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

At $1000 per month, yep, rooftop solar with tax credits and incentives would probably take two to three years to pay for itself. Where I live, it took me about ten years. $900/mo for an average electric bill is just price gouging. The costs to generate electricity have actually gone down thanks to renewables.

It’s stupid that there aren’t more incentives for people to install solar and batteries. Decentralizing the grid should be thought of as a national security issue.

Every solar company in my state gets taken the fuck out by Duke Energy in court. Then you’re stuck with a system that you have to pay Duke Energy for and makes them money.