• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    9 days ago

    Ohh wow maybe mega corps can pay for their own infrastructure

    Pretty plz?

    We tired boss.jpeg

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      8 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

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

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        8 days ago

        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.