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That's a big ask, as they say, Jan. Where in all of human existence has there ever been such a thing as a 'balanced' anything?
To not encounter a cross-roads or a fork in the path of life, cannot be said to be a life at all. Could the ideal be to follow only the beaten path, to be unchanging in a universe that is ever on the move?
To be faced with nothing but path, as to be standing in a car park, say. Where each choice of direction presents the same ground beneath the feet, even then would we not choose to travel in a line that brings us to our favoured destination? Could we ever choose to wander aimlessly, to be a part of the madding crowd, to simply mill about?
Funnily enough, to go back to the 'beaten path'. This is the route travelled by Utility companies. They assume (quite correctly) that the need for what they sell is on-going and without end. The major difficulty Politically, is that politics has been written out of the story, people have written out of the story. To be replaced by profit.
Utilities, as with house prices recently, are set to have increased and ever increasing profits on and on regardless.
If only, Utilities were such a political-football as Health and Education.