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I have always done that consistently

Didn't you just recently post that during absence you have >= 10kWh standby power per day and that the effort to turn off the TV power strip is too high for you?

I have always done that consistently, my parents raised me that way. Leaving the light on, standby mode didn’t exist for us. Of course, you can always do more.

They ran in standby. 2 laptops each with a screen. 3 TVs. Fully automatic coffee machine. Xbox. Wifi printer. I suspect that an OLED 65 inch TV uses quite a bit of power in standby … but I didn’t want to measure each individual device or anything like that, so I have now created the possibility to turn off each device completely and thus reduced the consumption.

That’s outrageous. Back then you would have gotten a slap in the face for that. But at least now we know how to evaluate your comments.

I am already in favor of preserving the hard-earned prosperity for the generations after us. But right now, it somehow feels like we are burning through everything that was built up over decades in half a year.

Just a feeling. Decades ago, people in Germany were already doing very well. Without asparagus and strawberries in winter and without flight mangos and without SUVs and without… list expandable. What has been created in terms of prosperity since then concerns a) social progress (medical treatments, rights to participation and care, minimum wage, environmental protection, etc.) b) expansion of consumption to an almost ridiculous extent, examples see above. Crises like now force people to make sacrifices depending on the situation in category b). This hits poorer people much harder than most here in the HAUSBAU(!) forum. If there were sacrifices in a), THEN you would have a point.

People like Snowdy are my favorites…. You can just throw the posts straight in the bin.

Insolence. In the past, you’d get a slap for that.
But at least now we know how to assess your comments.

Yeah, well, things aren’t like that anymore and I’m talking about myself here. But I don’t live alone!

I constantly have to persuade my husband to turn everything off and he didn’t want power strips either. The test to measure consumption was on my initiative and I’m very glad to have finally convinced him. Because I was raised that way; my parents always paid attention to it.

It also applies, for example, to water. He always left it running when brushing his teeth—that doesn’t happen with me.

I have a photovoltaic system and an electric car, so what do you want from me?

Do I now have to be afraid that you’ll stand behind me if I shower for 6 minutes?

Annoying, the culture of discussion here.

Just only seemingly.
“Decades ago” people in Germany were already doing very well. Without asparagus and strawberries in winter and without flight mangoes and without SUVs and without… list expandable.

What has been created in terms of prosperity since then concerns

a) social progress (medical treatments, rights to participation and care, minimum wage, environmental protection, etc.)

b) expansion of consumption to an almost ridiculous level, examples see above.

Crises like now force, depending on the situation, sacrifices in category b).
That hits poorer people much harder than most here in the HAUSBAU(!) forum.

If there were sacrifices in a), THEN you’d have a point.

Uh, and where do you live, in the same country as me? But the medical standard here has clearly declined in recent years.

I had to drive to the hospital twice a day for weeks, or my family did, because there simply was no one with the time to give my father his 10-15 cancer pills and antibiotics. Every day these stood untouched in the room and the nurses just shrugged—no time.

We’re trying to get rehab for my brother-in-law, it’s insane what you have to go through there.

It may be that the standard is good compared to some other countries that have nothing, but we have declined—according to your definition, prosperity is decreasing.

because there was simply no one who had the time to give my father his 10-15 cancer pills and antibiotics.

I know it differently. Administering prescribed medication is mandatory. Unless the patient actively refuses. But aside from that:

The medical standard has clearly declined here in recent years.

When and where was it that your father was given the 15 medications and your brother-in-law immediately got a rehab place? You infer from something that is currently or recently not going well for you that everything was better in the past. Hopefully it is not the good old days meant when one did not have to worry about rehab and certain medications for a certain reason?