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A municipal electric company can use private contractors just the same. The difference is that the municipal electric company is accountable to the captive resi
by mindslight 2y ago
A municipal electric company can use private contractors just the same. The difference is that the municipal electric company is accountable to the captive residents they serve, while a privately-owned monopoly escapes most accountability.
- spwa4 2y agoAnd the whole issue is that this accountability is generally used by a group of people that make it serve different issues. Municipalities use it like a way to raise taxes to do what they want to do (like a work program, a way to pay pensions for municipal workers, ...) Of course a privately-owned one doesn't work either, because there's no competition.