• deHaga@feddit.uk
      2·
      6 个月前

      Opportunity cost. If you spend money on one thing, it means you can’t spend it on something else

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 个月前

        Of course. So providing profits to utility “owners” is money stolen from the people that could be more productively used literally anywhere else.

        • deHaga@feddit.uk
          2·
          6 个月前

          The profits are in return for investment that the government couldn’t otherwise do. What’s the alternative?

          Also, the private company employs people, they pay income tax.