interesting vid, wonder if anything's changed in the last 18 months, and if there's any worthwhile left criticism of this perspective
interesting vid, wonder if anything's changed in the last 18 months, and if there's any worthwhile left criticism of this perspective
okay this inspired me to look into the history more. france was forced to open up the electricity market to "market competition" in 99, and by 2004 EDF was even officially privatized, at the EU's insistence (though the french state retained majority ownership). and it was fully renationalized last year after let's just say: a tumultuous run, on the private market.
not sure what the takeaways are exactly but surprise surprise the previously healthy edf was cannibalized heavily during the privatization years.
I wish that commenter spelled out their perspective more clearly. but it seems to me that EU neolibs are the reason for a lot of the nonsensical policies applied to EDF throughout the last 25 years
Yeah, I was re-reading the comment and realized it comes off as pro-market by the end although I think they're just a bad writer. Them mentioning the rentier class and "the private sector does everything better" puts them definitely DemSoc and left, I think.
Overall it made me skeptical of the guy in the video's presentation though. Shoulda' knew the EU would be a major problem like this. Thanks for the response.
yeah I'm skeptical of the guy as well (see my other top level comment). He's definitely a liberal, not even a demsoc or anything, though he does see some of the reality of the sheer effectiveness of central planning. He covers the topics pretty well but its a bit weird that as a medical doctor he has this whole side biz as a pro-nuclear podcaster, and some of his guests are straight up right wing while others definitely seem to lean left