Just thought it was interesting to see the nuts and bolts of these decisions. Things can be Interesting and horrifying at the same time, I guess.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Power infrastructure - and more broadly, basic utilities - have no business whatsoever being run by private companies. If we want to have any hope of actually addressing climate change, energy companies need to be nationalized worldwide.

    The parties voting these proposals down represent and infinitesimal fraction of our population, and they’re killing the rest of us because they want a good 5-year ROI. And they will never stop wanting that 5-year ROI. And those same parties voting the proposals down also tend to have successfully executed regulatory capture on their host governments.