expensive useless government

FTFY

Java

(I’m waiting for someone to rewrite it in Rust)

NewPipe can do the same, without any ads. And its also FOSS

Markets are nothing more than voluntary association. Most, if not every “obscenely rich” person got this rich because of govt interference (lobbying, govt sanctioned monopoly, corporate welfare, subsidies, etc.)

“Organic” market economy would be beneficial to everyone

Oh, no! I don’t think that’s what they desire

Yes

Do you imply that everyone would be able to afford buying a home without landlords?

Btrfs with compression can substantially “increase” capacity of your USB stick. IIRC I managed to fit 20-30% more data on 64Gb stick than its maximum capacity!

You might try flashing OpenWRT firmware if your router is supported. It allows changing DNS

Literally living through war that tankies cheer for. With everything I managed to take with myself was a couple of hard drives and a spare clothes.

If anything that experience would make anyone want less government and their planning.

And what “advanced medicine and tech” are you talking about? That’s the things capitalist countries developed first (for the most part)

You’re delusional if you want back the system that most people who lived under it hate!

I like both! But it never occurred to me that there’s correlation

Governments can also be sued

My point is they don’t lose hard earned money, they just pay you money they collect forcefully from people. Basically it’s not a deterrent, but simple restitution

As far as government accountability, that’s what elections are for.

It’s quite rare for any candidate to talk about utilities in their campaign at all.

People here tend to not associate govt owned corporations with the government itself. And when someone brings it up, they just make some kind of excuse about what terrible person you are for accusing such a benevolent government of incompetence when they don’t fix their stuff, and increase price 2

And besides, chances of reelection are so slim I doubt any politician actually going for it. It’s much more profitable to simply lie about your promises

But utilities really can’t go out of business

They should declare bankruptcy and be sold to someone

loss of those services would be catastrophic

Government failed to consistently provide power — no catastrophe. Government failed to provide any water at all — no catastrophe (some people just started to pump and sell underground water)

So why private buisness not providing just one of those services for the period before it’s bought, must result in catastrophe? (Just for time reference, the absence of water I described earlier already lasts longer than a year)

Governments can also be sued

My point is they don’t lose hard earned money, they just pay you money they collect forcefully from people. Basically it’s not a deterrent, but simple restitution

As far as government accountability, that’s what elections are for.

It’s quite rare for any candidate to talk about utilities in their campaign at all.

People here tend to not associate govt owned corporations with the government itself. And when someone brings it up, they just make some kind of excuse about what terrible person you are for accusing such a benevolent government of incompetence when they don’t fix their stuff, and increase price 2

And besides, chances of reelection are so slim I doubt any politician actually going for it. It’s much more profitable to simply lie about your promises

But utilities really can’t go out of business

They should declare bankruptcy and be sold to someone

loss of those services would be catastrophic

Government failed to consistently provide power — no catastrophe. Government failed to provide any water at all — no catastrophe (some people just started to pump and sell underground water)

So why private buisness not providing just one of those services for the period before it’s bought, must result in catastrophe? (Just for time reference, the absence of water I described earlier already lasts longer than a year)

I actually deleted my comment when I reread what you originally commented. But it seems like it’s still there for some reason

As I said in reply to other person, in my country there’s private businesses providing those services for cheaper price than the government alternative. Infrastructure for the most part is provided by 3rd party.

Also I keep hearing this talk about “government accountability”, but what mechanism of accountability does government have? Private firms at least can go out of business or sued. Government in worst case will just pay you some of its “tax money”

In my country private companies provide their service much cheaper than government alternative. And, yes they use shared infrastructure.

I get the reasons for most of your points from a perspective of moderate “leftist”. But why “Govt ownership of essential industries like electricity, water, gas”?

You seem to somewhat believe in private enterprise, so why prevent it from providing those services at competitive cost/quality?

So basically Centrism?

Xiaomi Router 4C with OpenWRT firmware.

It’s very cheap and can provide 100MB/s speed, but I didn’t trust the original Chinese firmware