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The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire (media.kbin.earth)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/818591

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s a money-sink and local governments don’t like that. The first things financially cut when I worked for a city of 170,000 were always services that didn’t make money. That’s just how it works.

The whole point of government is to collect taxes to pay for stuff that isn't revenue generating to spread out the costs!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

Seriously, this. Government is supposed to fund services, not profitable businesses

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the government running businesses for profit is essentially the definition of socialism lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In what definition or context is this true?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All of them? I'm not sure I understand the question.

First result on google for "socialism definition" as an example

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Governments running businesses is what "owning the means of production" means, in every context, by every definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think we think of "profit" differently, but sure.