Board:   [WWIVnet] General Chat
Subject: Re: Marriage
From:    Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
To:      Jahmas #29 @707
Date:    Fri Oct 02, 2026 07:32

J> We do live in a "hybrid" Capitalistic / Socialistic country. Socialism is
J> when the government "owns the means of production" Any analogy to your
J> argument is like waterworks infrastructure. People have basic human needs
J> for water. Therefore most of the public works projects are overseen by
J> government regulation. Energy is a basic human necessity and should not
J> come under a "business model".

Agreed that energy is a necessity.  My thoughts are infrastructure owned by the
tax payers and all energy producers nationally can sell and compete and sell
the power to anyone in the country.  This used to work well in MD - until the
latest administration killed it off.  It also requires the tax payers (not some
government regulation group) owning and managing the infrastructure.  As we
know, most of the "regulators" were previous energy CEO buddies, so they are
basically on the same team out for themselves and not the general people.

Hopefully one day we will be able to buy power from Amazon, Google, Microsoft,
etc, as they will have more than enough power using small nuclear reactors in
their data centers to offer cheap rates to the public.  Anything to get away
from this monopolistic structure we have in place now where the people get
constantly screwed.

- Mark

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