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Re:The worst drought in 1,200 years by simonh on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:52PM (#33453839)
Sure, but whether you go for a central funding model (which boils down to everybody pays regardless of use) or a user pays model, that decision has nothing to do with capitalism. In a non-capitalist system you could do either.

In fact in a capitalist model you could still do either. The utility could be privately owned but have just one customer, the government. It’s not a great idea, but it does happen.

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Re:The worst drought in 1,200 years by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:37PM (#33455405)
> In a non-capitalist system you could do either.

You could but there's much less reason to pick that way.

> The utility could be privately owned but have just one customer, the government.

The government being the only customer provides it a lot of control and I would say this is an obfuscation of state ownership more than it is actually capitalism.

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