We don't need competition and innovation in these spaces. We don't need 35 different kinds of chicken sandwich. We don't need "options" for gas and electric rates.

We need safe, abundant, high quality, environmentally conscious essential goods and services, delivered AT OR BELOW the cost required to produce and deliver them at scale.

Make it all public ownership.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Big fucking agree!

These are all natural monopolies. Massive, incomprehensible unbelievable amounts of money need to be invested to make a network, and then running the next train, or adding a new gas or power customer is peanuts.

Any time suggesting "hey, maybe we should build an entirely separate system so we can compete" results in people bringing you in for a forced psych eval, you're talking about a natural monopoly.

It's illogical to duplicate the network so "pRiVaTe CoMpEtItIoN" now has to negotiate common carrier agreements and the admin overhead makes it twice (sometimes 10X) more expensive than just one crown corporation owning the entire fucking thing!

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but who gets to decide which version of the chicken sandwich we’re going with?

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

You get ethically and sustainably raised organic chicken. Make whatever sandwich you want with that.