Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Energy Privatisation is Bankrupting Britain" video.

It's so criminal. It just so absolutely criminal. This has been repeated by these types of scamming assholes many times over. I'm not necessarily against a for profit business model but I am when political thugs apply it in this manner, towards fundamental public needs and resources.
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@asilver2889 yes. Where is the assistance to help pay the unaffordable bills they created?????? We have the same issue in the US, but at least in some places there are some different payment assistance programs. I'm using one of them.
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@MrMarinus18 yeah I mean why not???? Why can't the state provide a basic version of everything?? For luxury and frills you can seek the private market, but if you don't want to or can't afford it, you don't have to. I mean that just makes sense.
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This is what happens when you don't run essential needs publicly or have price controls. Or both.
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You must work at PG&E , California's criminal and evil private power provider.
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I say non-founding shareholding is theft and should be illegal. I cannot express in words how much i oppose these filthy profiteering bastards who enjoy ramming their fist up the ass of the rest of us while they laugh all the way to the bank. THE FACT IS..... non-founding shareholding is a vector of cheating consumers and workers and causes an unjustifiable cost inflation and should be absolutely illegal I say. Change this legal scammery, and a lot changes for all. It doesn't mean companies can't be for-profit for it's owners and workers and seed investors, it just means the entity isn't a giant scam which screws over workers or consumers for the express purposes of endless shareholder greed. And I mean c'mon, 90% of shareholding is done by the 1%. YOUR DAD ISNT GETTING WEALTHY FROM HIS INVESTMENTS. The 1% do, not ordinary gobs like us. It's just another form of wealth transfer. ENOUGH I SAY. I think non-seed money shareholding isn't right. Objections??? There's a difference in legitimacy to me between seed money, and investing just because. Why does someone deserve a forever return based on a ONE-TIME purchase of X number of shares?? Am I missing something?
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@reasonablespeculation3893 you're just wrong on this one.
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@ErikratKhandnalie yep. I'm with this attitude 100%. It is time to get totally off oil and gas as soon as humanly possible. and this from someone who loves cars and the smell of diesel.
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I sure hope things get better for you guys. And of course I see your govt is not helping people afford or pay their heating bills. Or at least I haven't heard of any assistance or relief yet. In contrast, home energy costs where I live are definitely too high but at least there's an assistance program that's a fairly decent that I and mine are using right now. Privatization of essential needs is so beyond an idea that should ever be accepted by anyone, it's just amazing people still get away with it. Profit is fine in the nonessential consumer goods market but NOT FOR OUR BASIC NEEDS or at a minimum, not as the ONLY supplier. There should always be a nonprofit option to provide an alternative to the privatized one. Goddamn I hate these neoliberals so goddamn much. God forbid we implement economic management that provides for EVERYONE. Why does there have to be a poverty class????? That's not very nice. There's room for some rich people while also assuring no one is left out in the cold. ITS NOT HARD. I guess to this day neolibs still can't or won't get this. Enter the Leftists. Corporations deserve the iron fist and until this happens THEIR fist will be up our ass and well, maybe that's your thing but it's not mine.
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When you allow greed psychopaths to own your govt this is what happens. Happens here (US) too, and then some.
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@joncumberbatch852 yea.... Thanks.... I really am coming to believe equity firms are the devil and non-founding investing is a scam and really shouldn't exist.... Ok so let's say I buy some stock.... In essence I'm loaning money to the company with the expectation someday I'll get all of it back plus some extra.... Ok fine. So let's say I get my return for five years. Ok.... fine.... but why should I keep getting a lifelong return for a one-time contribution????? Once people receive a return on their investment shouldn't that be the end of it?? And who sets the rules on the levels of returns????? Maybe I'm not a financial genius and I'm missing something but I really don't see stockholding as a legitimate process. It's either a scam to the workers or a scam to the shareholders it seems. Shareholders may never get a full return on their money, and if they do, then it's the workers that are getting shorted one way or another, or customers. Or patients! Yes of course in today's dark age hospitals are increasingly run for ruthless profit. The more I analyze it the more I don't think it's right. I'm open to counter arguments, but yeah... Even without shareholder investing, you would still have the problem of these goddawful equity firms and other ruthless groups buying out just about anything and then running it into the ground for extreme profiteering. Hospitals, mobile home parks, newspapers, anything that has a vital human value these animals will take and harm and destroy. Without proper laws it won't stop. We need laws to heavily limit or prevent this but that's much easier said than done. We can't afford to buy our way into legislature the way the big money can.
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@joncumberbatch852 thanks I do my best to see clearly
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@joncumberbatch852 let me know if YT didn't show you either of my replies. Sometimes yt mutes me.
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When your reps are paid off from private wealth-seeking elites they will definitely sell you out. Here in the US the red-blue uniparty grifters both work for Big Business and Billionaires, not us. Unfortunately after well over 100 years, some people still can't get this. If we want different it's going to take a new Left movement and party.
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@kokoteofilov9486 You think markets can solve everything. Welf I disagree. They can solve some things - but not everything.
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@MrMarinus18 imagine if there was a generous nonprofit aka public sector in the US where all basic industries and services were offered. Fuck me this is bullshit. We need changes. I want some heads! On plates that is
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Commie Capybara fam where you at? C'mon I know you guys are out there......
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Yes it is. It's just wrong. Stiff regulations can help, but it's best just not privatize in these cases period.
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@LuigiMordelAlaume yeah fr. Great statement.
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@LuigiMordelAlaume yeah the federal apparatus has pretty much always been owned and answers to Big Business today and the tycoons of yesteryear.
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@garysmokesmeat there should be regulations on private food stores and chains to ensure prices stay affordable, mergers are limited, and no waste is tolerated. All unsold food needs to be donated locally before spoilage, and any bad food needs to be sent to local compost patches. Govt can actually provide disposal methods for this, they do this in some places. Also expiration dates are bollocks and need to be stopped as they produce a tragic amount of unnecessary food waste.
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@garysmokesmeat well I'm working on it. Thanks bro. You're a pal.
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@garysmokesmeat I think you're getting weirdly triggered for no reason 😂 But I do believe that I'm super smart on the social issues and that I have all the answers to create a positive world where everyone's material needs are met efficiently A lot of people don't know this but capybaras are like.... Really smart
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@garysmokesmeat where did I ever say that??
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@garysmokesmeat capybaras are known to be notoriously peace-loving
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@garysmokesmeat my focus is mostly on forcing corporate compliance with various conduct standards in order to protect communities and empower workers and employees. Also with expanding the public sector to ensure all basic household needs can be met via reliable non-profit or govt-run means. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any for-profit business, but my position is that it should be heavily regulated. I believe in rigid rules on business, esp Big Business, and double especially on banking. Otherwise, people get harmed, and that's not okay by me. Consequences can start at steep fines for repeated or significant non-compliance but if those don't work than you know, things would have to escalate to possible confiscation of assets, misdemeanor-criminal charges, or revocation of the corporate charter, which is essentially a private business's legal clearance to operate.
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@garysmokesmeat oh that easy. I send in the nukes. I paint cute little faces on them so it's totally kewl.
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@garysmokesmeat everybody wants my advances. Nobody doesn't want Capybara in their life.
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@garysmokesmeat I know brah. It's so easy!™️ Like talk about an easy choice amirite?
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Thatcher was Reagan in a dress and both were shite. I live in the US and the curse of Rightoid neoliberalism continues today and yeah, it's bad. But when you live under the iron fist of the capitalist State these are to be expected. Things can always get better so that's what we work towards. Frankly, there needs to be a nonprofit alternative to provide every need and it's a betrayal of a country's people not to have this. The private sector alone cannot meet all needs at a price everyone can afford. And what of those that have needs, but little money?? People deserve the choice whether they want to patronize the for-profit provider or not, and so long as that choice is given, I don't have a problem with the private sector. The problem is it isn't given here, in the US, AT ALL, and that's why we have up to 80% of household existing in an economic gradient from extremely poor, to precarious, to managing but just barely, to living paycheck to paycheck and having less than $500 in reserve, to being generally OK in the middle class provided nothing serious goes wrong. Next to no public healthcare means one serious medical problem and you are easily screwed. Medical bankruptcy dwarfs all of the causes of bankruptcy in the US. This just isn't right. We can do better. I'm not totally against the private sector but it needs to be aggressively managed via hardcore regulation. Every country deserves a fully-funded public aka nonprofit sector to provide the universal basic services that life requires.
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@joncumberbatch852 yeah I think you're right
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