I'm of the mind that scarcity is the conspiracy on which all conspiracies are built. I mean, of course it is. To me, most of the history of the last couple of centuries has been surface-level narrative to cover for what has ultimately been a war/negotiation between the world's elite powers over energy control and public energy-perception. We live in a virtual reality where what we believe is what makes consumerism and spending happen. That's the conspiracy. Though I don't know how seriously I take it, it's fun to get into the fringes of all of this, such as with Tesla and all of the claims that he understood that energy is ultimately so abundant and so capturable as to completely deflate energy economies - if the technology were actually elaborated and deployed. Thinking about what this would mean for global economies is staggering. I don't know if it is true, but I do think there is good reason to believe we have been lied to about basic energy for a very long time.