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

Ohh wow maybe mega corps can pay for their own infrastructure

Pretty plz?

We tired boss.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

we are all in this together, mate 🤡