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oh no! think of the stock market! (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah yeah down with capitalism rah rah but if the electric company makes no money, how do they afford infrastructure maintenance?

Ok so we nationalize the electric company. Now taxes pay to keep up the electric grid?

I'm down for all of that, by the way. It's a great solution. But there is absolutely, indisputably, 100% a problem here, and it's childish to pretend that if evil corporations would stop being so greedy everything would magically fix itself. It's completely valid to discuss this issue in terms of problems and solutions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If evil corporations stopped being greedy everything would literally fix itself, and it would not be magic.

Imagine getting electricity from solar as what it cost to deliver and not having a price set by a market at all.

Imagine if the corporations were not allowed to extract profit from you’d to give it to the shareholders and banks.

There’s an almost uncountable amount of spare money, when you remove ‘profits’ and put it back into the service .

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't understand it well enough to explain it but I think that this actually is not the issue here. Something about it making the grids unstable?

Though based on their phrasing it 100% sounds like "lol how can be greedy if free"

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