• deHaga@feddit.uk
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    54 minutes ago

    It’s not rhetoric. It’s economics 101. Opportunity cost.

    A mixture of private and public is best.

    Edit. A mixture allows more spend on more things. Govts can’t sell infinite debt

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        2 hours ago

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

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

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      Thanks professor. Do you know private debt and state debt are hardly the same? Have you considered the opportunity cost of not having public energy, therefore losing potential “earnings” to private investors? Or are you telling me next that rich people are a necessity as well? Is trickle-down part of this course or do I have to wait for 201?