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ElusiveThing
Not that free markets actually exist anywhere. Which is kinda good, but no competitive industry suffers from them currently.
harribobs
you've not heard of the UK's water system then?
themikep
civil infrastructure and free markets can exist in the same economy, folks
BaddyOneShoe
Don't give them ideas! I can just see Disney buying all public utilities and turning them into subscription services. With ads somehow.
ChimeraGryphProduction
Will they will start the experiment in Disney World with the Piss/Shit Pass? Hate waiting for the ride to the hershey highway? Get that fast pass ready or Goofy will personally block you from being able to relieve yourself while telling you to go hyuck yourself!
Ekibwurm
had to drain the shit well enough for the think tank spewing it to be able to hear them instead of them drowing in it.... sadly, we listened.
LetMeSeeMyKids
Everyone had their own shìt to deal with. It would clutter our homes, our minds. Until one day, the government said, give me your shìt, your sewage. I'll take care of it.....but it will cost you....
blisfulloblivion
Don't forget that even in ancient times some powerful people made some dumb capitalistic decisions. Ex. Emperor Vespasian who had the genius idea of paid public toilets in ancient Rome and his famous quote when criticized, "Money does not smell."
Alaaraaf
A lot of these things -- in the UK at least -- were built by rich asshats trying to buy some good karma and their place in history after getting rich doing abhorrent things.
It was a more modern (at the time) version of paying for a church, or chantry.
borocanuck
Stink tanks?
notinterestednow
The dark ages are exactly what happens when evil humans gain power. They snuff out the light of learning to keep it. And it takes generations to fix it.
Imalwaysready
The “Dark Ages” actually saw major expansions in literacy and quite a number of inventions. They weren’t very dark, and to the degree they were, it had little to do with evil humans seizing power.
notinterestednow
Wikipedia article was interesting. The collapse of societal complexity as a description of the fall of Rome was intriguing.
pgdave
The "dark ages" are a myth told by victorians.
rshini
what happens when people who masterbate to Plato write the history books.
nsdev
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Duckgooser
OOP is wrong, we didn't invite public sewerage systems before sewerage
Mozyzgiraffe
Stink tanks before think tanks
kimbozo
And libraries, and national parks, and a lot of public services ss take for granted in the US
DVSBSTrD
Thank you Ben Franklin.
Jewdakris
Roads maybe
Vergenbuurg
...and fire departments, and freeways/road networks. We'd still have police, as fascists always need an enforcement/punishment squad to keep the serfs/slaves in line.
ElvenTroll1121
We can go backwards i fully expect someone will attempt to charge me for air before my life is over
rshini
And remember Fire Departments used to be a pay service.
PathologicalLier
It will return as one.
weidermeijer
The tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa, isn’t hooked to a sewage system. They truck it out daily.
Evi1Gav
I believe this was true even it opened and for several years, but did get fixed in the end.
AyatollahBahloni
Are you shitting me? No, are they shitting me? Holy shit.
Perkunas687
AnOceanOfStars
Shit happens when they make stuff just to compensate tiny peepees rather than for functionality.
Raikupath
the city is build in a desert, it's as fake as the people who live in it.
Santac99
Like Vegas or LA?
xmaneds
not 'fake,' rather "artificial, expensive, and resource-intensive"
miked854
But with oil money so you'd think they'd have a pipeline guy.
nsdev
Yea, but now leaking pipelines would be in their backyard.
LetMeSeeMyKids
A city in Ontario is built on high elevation. The sewage line runs downhill throughout the entire city. That sewage spins a turbine and generates power for the city. Hamilton, Ontario
ActualZedAxial
I had no idea, but don't even need to look that up. Hamilton being shit powered is the most Hamilton thing I've ever heard.
HiddenSanity
Power poops
eggmuffin
That's kind of beautiful.
LetMeSeeMyKids
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you shìt, generate power.
MrFancyPanzer
Not every country is like the US.
Odoyyoxigoyxc
not all countries are colonizers there are countries that never seek to expand their territories or to occupy others
LetMeSeeMyKids
You are referring to European countries?
ElTee86
JFC.
TwoNineSix
Jumping spiders have the best vision of all arachnids. You know, since we're saying things irrelevant to the post.
SirRichardOfHead
They are also the friggin' cutest of all arachnids.
graifazig
No they're not though things can still be weird. For example my home place in Romania only got a sewer system in the last decade. And a lot of people that I know there opposed the "EU overreach", fearing for their septic-tank autonomy. Mainly because of FUD from who knows where. But most of them came around quickly when they realized they didn't have to do the waste management, where most of them literally shovelled their own shit from the outhouse to the tank, themselves anymore.
LetMeSeeMyKids
Not all countries have sewage infrastructure
Imalwaysready
Then those countries should sure as hell not invent free-market think tanks, yet!
graifazig
What have the Romans ever done for us?
channelranger
I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean. You mean other countries lack sewage infrastructure? Or do you mean the free market think tanks part? Either way I'm not really sure what it has to do with the post.
MrFancyPanzer
I mean not every country lets corporations exploit the people the same way as the US.
damogen
I think they're trying to say that any government can just choose to ignore free market think tanks.
Except in USA of course.
averageNerdyGuy
Thank FUCK