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> There's little proof that we have meaningfully lost anything Did we gain anything? I ask in earnest, I don't know. I can guess that the cost of running, mai
by bongobingo1 3y ago
> There's little proof that we have meaningfully lost anything
Did we gain anything? I ask in earnest, I don't know.
I can guess that the cost of running, maintenance, etc are now "not a cost of the state", but the cost doesn't just disappear, it was always on the consumer via tax or bills (or tax and bills, hopefully in a way that sums to the same cost!).
- Panzer04 3y agoIn theory, you remove government overhead. Government bureacracies are infamous for expanding without the requirement to make a profit as a constraint. As it pertains to power, People tend to promote government as a means to make it cheaper - but this is sort of a fallacy - the only way the government can do it cheaper is if it's operationally more efficient to a significant degree. I don't see how a government achieves this. Private energy generators are usually not very profitable - the people making money were commodity producers, recently, not electricity generators.