Free Market? There's no such thing as Free Markets. it's been gone for 15-20 years. Any discussion of free markets is from a capitalist point of view that they own and control their market - That's what passes for free markets today.

Every vertical market has been bought and consolidated by corporations. The people that make up the boards of these corporations are on the boards of 200+ other corporations.

Which brings us to the next point:

Collusion

The most obvious example of this - Big Pharma

There is sooo much price gouging going on, every single multi-millionaire wants to be a billionaire. The only way for them to achieve this is exorbitant profiteering and suppression of wages

Anyone that makes moves to undercut the profits of a mega-corp gets bought out, as it is easier for them to buy out the competition than compete

If solar were priced correctly there would be wide adoption

especially with the rise in home energy pricing

I'm setting expectations toward our overlords that think they can charge whatever the fuck they want while colluding with the few solar manufacturers to justify their outrageous profit margins

We all know that solar will meet a big part of home energy needs

$30-40k for a 15kw system with battery is outrageous price gouging

There is no reason a 15kw system can't be $1k/Kw installed - this is how you get market penetration and change your energy systems - lower the cost for adoption

Solar + Battery should be less than $1k per Kilowatt

The profit margin for the companies using govt subsidies are crazy high