• PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    The minimum standards would be set based on regulatory capture in very many municipalities. I don’t think it would be worse than jank monopolies, at least. I don’t know that the speed (or incentives) of either is something I trust with keeping up technologically.

    Moving from a monopoly to a municipality doesn’t help when the standards they set are super strict.

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      6 months ago

      We’ve tried that. What’s prone to happen is the corporations spend money to the municipalities to deregulate. Let’s stop giving them the chance. It hasn’t worked. Let’s instead go back to treating utilities as publically beneficial

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        6 months ago

        Or they spend money to make them over regulate. Yeah. If we can’t even control local politicians now, how do you propose we do close that bit of fuckery?

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              6 months ago

              Having no masters would be exactly the aim. Ultimate power should lay in the hands of the people and government should only exist to serve the will of said people. I don’t fully know what that should look like but I can say for sure we’ve tested a lot of ideas that aren’t that, and that we should try some new things because what were doing now isn’t working.

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                6 months ago

                I don’t fully know what that should look like but I can say for sure we’ve tested a lot of ideas that aren’t that, and that we should try some new things because what were doing now isn’t working.

                We’re on the same page.