Think about the last time you switched your power company?
Odds are you didn’t. Or the last time you did, it was because you moved. Because in most of this country, one company in every community owns the wires to your house, and that is that. There’s no shopping around, because back in the early 20th century, it made sense, the grid costs a fortune to build and to maintain, and you can’t have five companies stringing competing wires down every street. So they gave one company a territory and regulated what they could charge.
Except they didn’t. And with no competition, our grid gets worse, and we pay more, and they make more.
And yes, we built this on purpose, a system without exits, and customers without power.
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