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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Absolutely bizarre utility companies are for profit with shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We have been shown over and over that investors will take profits during good times, build no resilience to handle disasters, invest the bare minimum back into infrastructure and jobs, drain the companies until bankruptcy arrives and taxpayers are left with the bill.

This could work with proper regulation. But regulation can be corrupted. Money corrupts. This industry involves lots of money. And so here we are.

When Jeremy Corbyn proposed to buy back utility companies here shortly before the energy crisis, people looked at him like a lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really sounds like a capitalistic society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because communist societies did better?

Maybe it's time to admit that the biggest flaw in our systems is human nature.

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