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arrow74@lemmy.zip 22 hours agoThis isn’t a choice issue. It should be state owned and operated in a non-profit capacity, and everyone should pay their fair share.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t had a great experience with government run services. Government is better at owning and setting rules about things than actually operating them. If it’s possible to have competition, then the government playing referee seems to provide a better result.
If a monopoly is unavoidable, then yeah, the government should be that monopoly. But as long as it’s feasible to have at least three competitors, it should be privately run.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
My city owns all our utilities. Works the same, arguably more reliable