Dan Caplinger
speaker
1,598 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 3 Jul
Dan Caplinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The local elected officials have been signed to nondisclosure agreements.
And then the PR agents and the lawyers come in and they say, everybody, this is a great deal.
Just trust us.
The utility companies have assured us that your rates will not rise.
You know, there might be some inconvenience, but this is just the price that we all have to pay for progress.
So get on board.
And people say, why would we trust you?
You've given us no reason to trust you.
This was negotiated under an NDA.
The utility monopolies are completely untrustworthy.
Sam Altman and Musk and Alex Karp and their ilk do not exactly seem like the most morally upstanding characters.
I mean, Altman's own colleagues call him a pathological liar.
So people say we have got good reasons to doubt whether this is a good deal.
And then normally the next line is like,
Well, don't you idiots know that you don't have any better options because you don't got a lot of money out here.
We've got billions upon billions of dollars in California.
And if you don't get this investment now, it's the last best option you're going to get and you're going to be left behind for the rest of the century.
That goes over like a lead balloon.
And people say, hey, actually, we kind of like our town the way it is.
And we might want some things to change, but we want to be part of that change because that's what democracy and self-determination means.
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