Propaganda
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Like if you have a public electricity providers, government ran public transit systems, state-owned telecommunication companies, public utilities, right? Now listen, here's where it's interesting, have to balance serving the public interest while remaining financially sustainable.
Since they are not profit-driven, any revenue earned is invested back into maintaining the infrastructure of the operations, which seems like a big old duh. We're not here to make money. This is not our money-making interest. This is living. It's a utility. I'm not trying to make money off it. I'm trying to keep the lights on. But as we know, it costs to do those things.
So the temptation becomes easy to be like, how do I offload this cost and make sure that this service is there? Because as you know, oftentimes, Public utilities don't be very good. You know what I'm saying? Flint still ain't got fresh water. Right now, Altadena is in a situation where they was like, look, don't even boil the water. Like whatever coming out of your tap is just not good.
Boiling is not good enough. Like do not drink this water. Right. Is the situation that they in. And it's like, well, where the money at? Like, how are we going to fix this? Now, that's a public utility. Now, a private utility is utilities obviously owned and operated by private companies.
So that would be an investor owned electricity company, like a private telecommunication, private owned oil, gas and pipelines and private owned waste management companies. Now, their goal, because it's a company, is still to make profit for their shareholders while also delivering reliable service.
Now, they argument their defense would be if we don't give you a good product, we won't have customers. So it is in our best interest for our own money to give you a best service. However, are you seeing the truck size hole in a logic? Nigga, we don't have a choice. Do you have a choice as to what water company provides the water to your house? Who gonna run the sewer? I don't have an option.
Anyway, so the key differences are very obvious, right? One is the ownership and motives, like publicly owned utilities serve the public interest rather than pursue profits, right? Private owned utilities are there for their investors and to maximize returns. Regulation and pricing. Public utilities are regulated by the government-appointed commissions that oversee pricing.
Private utilities are also regulated, but usually more flexible in a rate setting because what the hell you gonna do? Yeah, you gonna call the water company and be like, I ain't paying this bill. They gonna be like, cool, no problem. Service areas. Most public utility service customers are within municipal boundaries.
Investor-owned utilities often are defined by regional monopolies with little overlap or competition with customers. Listen, If you ever moved into an apartment and you was like, yo, I'm trying to like, you know, install cable. And they was like, or your internet. It was like, oh, it's AT&T over here. I was like, oh, but I have spectrum. They're like, spectrum don't serve this area.
Nigga, it's the internet. It's the air. It's wires. There's poles. I'm not allowed to, you can't come over here. Because it's a private company. Now I'm in a situation where AT&T knock on my door every day and being like, yo, we laying fiber optics. You know, we laying new pipes down here up under your street. We can move faster than Spectrum. I done ditched them both.
And then Spectrum still email me every day. Spectrum sent somebody who's like, we heard you left Spectrum. We're trying to figure out why. I'm like, nigga, because I don't want to use either of y'all. But we're the area you serve. When I first moved into the house that I'm in now, like I made a account on Edison and they were like, oh, nigga, Edison don't serve here. You have SoCal gas.
And I was like, who the hell is SoCal gas? They was like, that's who that's who else going to give me the gas. I don't have no options. I live in L.A. This is who serves L.A. infrastructure spending.
With public utilities, they might find it easier to raise funds for long-term capital projects and maintain infrastructure proactively while privately owned businesses and utilities answer to shareholders seeking returns, which impact investment decisions. Meaning, if I'm like Yo, somebody got to clean this sewer pipe because this water ain't good in this neighborhood.
It will behoove the city of Los Angeles to fix this. And it will be easy for them because I am a Los Angeles resident. This is a public utility. If I have private water, they might be like, uh, how much money does that neighborhood give us? You know, if we fix the water up there in Palos Verdes, you know what I'm saying? Like, we got to talk to them because they, you know what I mean?
They kind of give us the bread. So they're not incentivized necessarily to fix my infrastructure, right? And then the customer service focus, right? Public utilities often focus more on customer satisfaction and addressing community complaints, while private entities have profit motives. I mean, I don't know what else I need to explain to y'all, right?
Now, let me show you how this works and what the allure is for a public city council to make this decision. Are y'all here to more perfect union? It's another one of those, uh, podcast folks. It just got more money than us. They able to produce things that we had bred. We will produce.
Anyway, they did one about investor owned water companies and how they lobby to give them the contract to run their sewage and water. Right. And it's a super dope, super dope study. It's a good like focus study to show like as sort of an example of how it could happen anywhere. And they focus this one study on this city in Pennsylvania. Right.
And here's the ill part about all of this is that how would you know this is happening? I mean, are you really looking at the logo on your water bill? I mean, no, you just like looking at the costs, right? And hoping that it don't be that much. Now, again, if you rent an apartment, I don't know what utilities you got to cover, right? Let's say you are renting an apartment.
You know what I'm saying? Like a lot of times your utilities, it's like, they cover water and gas, you cover electricity and internet. And then whatever it is, I'm not thinking about who the company is. I'm just like paying the bill. But if one day your bill triple, I mean, who do you call? You're like, I haven't used more water. I don't understand why it costs more now. You might call the city.
The city's like, oh, we don't even run the water no more. And that's exactly what happened. So in 2020, in New Garden, Pennsylvania, they sold their water to, get this, Agua, Pennsylvania. Yeah. jerks, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities. And they sold their water for $30 million.
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