But they never had millions of people suffer in freezing weather because one of their states didn’t want to incorporate its electrical grid with the feds and because the private companies that ran the power plants decided it would be more profitable for them to shut down in the middle of the worst storm that this country has seen in like 50 years

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    That the Soviet Union, by some estimates the world’s No. 1 producer of energy, is menaced by such shortages underlines the extent to which the state-run economy has withered away without leaving anything in its place. Politicians, too, are keenly aware of the dire consequences if large numbers of citizens, who already worry about potential famine, must live in cold and dark homes as well.

    :deeper-sadness:

    Capitalism is when no electricity