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You don't need it to be government owned. While that is certainly one effective way of doing it, another can be to let whoever wants to build it build it, but r
by tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
You don't need it to be government owned. While that is certainly one effective way of doing it, another can be to let whoever wants to build it build it, but require them to give access to competitors for a regulated fee.
- dools 3y agoOh yeah that’s bound to be as equitable as having the government provide it!
- matt-p 3y agoIt depends how empowered your regulators are. In many European countries that's how it works and it is literally a better system than the government doing it themselves.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoThere are many ways to do it, e.g. the former monopolist (a now-privatized company that was created from the part of the government doing it) having a mandate to supply everyone. The downside of having the government do it is that if the government screws it up, it takes decades to fix, while private companies can swoop in much faster if one company is doing a bad job.