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Efficiency for extracting money from poor people to mega corporations? Seems to me there isn't really a lot of competition left since theres a handful of main p
by westmeal 1y ago
Efficiency for extracting money from poor people to mega corporations? Seems to me there isn't really a lot of competition left since theres a handful of main players that just buy out smaller competitors.
- bluGill 1y agoThe poor are richer than ever under the system. They have clean running water and not just light but televisions.
- RobotToaster 1y agoMost of them don't even own homes.
- bluGill 1y agothere are rich who don't own their own homes either. Often renting is the choice a mythical rational ecconomic actor would choose.
- lapcat 1y ago> They have clean running water They actually don't. Water is contaminated at various levels in many places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
- bluGill 1y agoNothing to do with rich or poor - they share the same water.
- lapcat 1y agoThe rich tend to avoid living in poor communities.
- bluGill 1y agoWater systems generelly cover the whole city, often more than one city in a MSA, not just a community. There are community water systems but most are bigger.
- kyo_gisors 1y ago[flagged]
- astrange 1y agoFlint's water has been fixed for more than five years now.
- plemer 1y agoBut minimal determination over their own lives. Thank God for cheap LCDs, though.
- olddustytrail 1y agoThey have clean running water because of the ordinary people who work to provide it and maintain the pipes. They have light and television because of the ordinary working people who work at and maintain electricity plants and design, sell, assemble electrical products. These things exist despite the billionaire leeches not because of them.