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Well, it’s a market, so the corporations with cashflow stand at the front of the queue. There is no other way of organizing this in our late stage capitalist sh

• ryan93 5y ago
  Please try and actually contribute to the discussion. In reality countries without many billionaires have way more issues with water supply and heating.
  • cannabis_sam 5y ago
    Like you, who didn’t engage with what I actually said? Please don’t waste people’s time, thank you.
  • smolder 5y ago
    And we could have no issues with water or heating and no billionaires, unless you're suggesting that billionaires alone make such problems go away. In that case we should send ours to the countries without so many. We're a wealthy country, that's obvious, and while we've demonstrated the power of greed to get things done, we have done poorly at keeping it in check and harnessing it for good. We don't need to do away with billionaires or take away all corporate power but they shouldn't be making up the rules to suit themselves. On this point of water access, it seems pretty reasonable to charge progressively, but not so progressively that it's practical for small consumers to sell their excess cheap water to large consumers.