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Yeah yeah, I remember growing up at the tail end of municipal essential services (USSR). For example, plumbers! You call up the municipal services on a Saturda
by sershe 2y ago
Yeah yeah, I remember growing up at the tail end of municipal essential services (USSR). For example, plumbers! You call up the municipal services on a Saturday with a water leak, and they tell you "the plumbers are out till Monday, and actually Monday is fully booked so see you Tuesday". I am not sure if private plumbers were fully illegal or a gray area, but we didn't "know a guy", so my mom used to be pretty good with plumbing fixes.
As long as competition exists or can be enforced, municipal services should not exist.
- mindslight 2y agoIn 2024 post-capitalist America the prospect of someone addressing your problem in three days sounds downright instantaneous.
- bobs_salsa 2y agoIn this case how ever the US ISPs do not have any competition. You mention the solution to this already, there’s nothing wrong with a municipal service so long as you allow private industry to service it.