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Trash removal is free in NY, sure. The city says people should have trash removal provided and it should be centralized. The equivalent would be that the city

• doctorpangloss 2y ago
  > "you have to provide them service even though you'll lose money on these customers". So if you're not yet convinced, fuck Comcast right? Yes! I want Comcast to lose money! I fucking hate Comcast more than anything, almost everyone who isn't working there does. There are things I can imagine never doing, like working for a tobacco company (fuck them too), and working for Comcast. It's okay to sometimes have limits. You can step on some toes without worrying about the ass they're connected to that you might have to kiss later. I will never kiss Comcast's ass. Laissez-faire absolutists do not arrive at economically or socially optimal outcomes all the time.
• Dylan16807 2y ago
  > Do you see why this is different? Not particularly, as long as they have a monopoly/duopoly, because that acts as a giant pile of free money which can pay for these things. If we had some kind of mechanism in place that resulted in aggressive competition, then maybe "you have to provide service for $15-20" would be a problem. I think it would be quite a bad idea for the city to pay the asking price to this kind of monopoly/duopoly, because that rent will get jacked up extra high.