Richard Stallman on Nostr: [2/3] … increase water bills, saying that otherwise it will fail. Privatization ...
[2/3] … increase water bills, saying that otherwise it will fail. Privatization schemes are generally a way to transfer public money to private profit, and water supply privatization is no exception. If the company is indeed moribund, that is great news, because it means that nationalization will cost the government very little in so-called "compensation". (Really, these companies' past and present owners should pay compensation for the wealth they have extracted from the public.) Once …
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