[ExI] watt an opportunity

[sjatkins]

That you can make a money off of some bizarre government program does not mean that it is capitalism at its best in the slightest. Real capitalism in my opinion is a free market, NOT government setting prices or changing prices depending on one's income or anything else. High government involvement in the market is and lots of "public/private partnerships" is the hallmark of fascism, not capitalism.
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On Monday, May 1st, 2023 at 5:42 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The company that supplies power to California wants to create a rate structure with price based on one’s income. I am retired, but comfortable. The rate doesn’t take into account what one owns, only what one makes.
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> The proposal is being criticized as being communist, but really it is capitalism at its finest. My neighbors on either side and across the street are all younger, still in their working years, so their actual income is lower than mine, even if I am more… comfortable. They all own Teslas (one of them owns two.) So if PG&E passes that rate structure, I can install a high-speed charger, sell them power at my lower cost, charge their cars at a lower rate than they pay, they save (some) I make a buttload.
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> See there, Marxism isn’t so bad, once one figures out how to take advantage of the silliness.
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> spike
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