Utilities
So when did “free trade” come to mean the US dictating to other countries whether they can have publicly-owned utilities?
Especially when such utilities are understood to be natural monopolies - “defined in economics as an industry where the fixed cost of the capital goods is so high that it is not profitable for a second firm to enter and compete”.
But nothing makes me madder than ongoing efforts to privatize the world’s water supply. Especially after such efforts led to a deadly cholera outbreak in South Africa, when people were forced to use dirty water rather than pay exorbitant prices (thanks to the Bechtel corporation).
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