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You could just nationalize these inefficient plutocratic utilities and provide free renewable energy, but that's communism I don't know why the answer is alway
by drekk 5y ago
You could just nationalize these inefficient plutocratic utilities and provide free renewable energy, but that's communism
I don't know why the answer is always to make the serfs pay more when a more attractive and simple solution would be, I don't know, not having private jets and fossil fuel subsidies and ...
- inglor_cz 5y agoEven the kibbutzim had to introduce energy meters in their semi-utopian communities, because with no personal interest in keeping their bills low, some people would just waste communal energy. There isn't any personal incentive not to waste a free resource, save individual conscientiousness, which many people score low upon.
- nradov 5y agoSo what are you proposing exactly? Confiscate private aircraft? Force everyone to ride the bus?
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago> You could just nationalize these inefficient plutocratic utilities and provide free renewable energy, but that's communism This is a joke right? Using other people's money doesn't make it free. You have to pay for it with taxes. Whether it's government or private is mostly tangential to cost. It's not like municipalities with utility co-ops pay tons more or less. The differences seem to mostly be around what the accountability looks like when the utility inevitably screws up (Flint, PG&E, etc, etc).
- sokoloff 5y agoThose fossil fuel subsidies are what's making the serfs (your word) pay less for energy than otherwise; removing them would increase the price of fossil fuels.