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physPop
4 months ago
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UBI as a productivity dividend
Aren't utilities, by definition, state owned? Or is that also backwards in america?
righthand
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Utilities in America refers to the service relative to ideas of basic needs for survival in the US so they are often public infrastructure with private operators but in the case of some things like the internet, itβs purely privatized.
ocdtrekkie
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It depends. Water is usually provided by the city here, but most electricity and natural gas is corporate-delivered.
idle_zealot
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We don't even own all of our roads here. Sometimes we sell city streets to parking companies.
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