Aside from covid of course…
My prediction is a texas-style grid failure but with a wider scale. Where I live, the electrical infrastructure is crumbling and there were a number of 1-2 day long outages this year which is new. Also a generally very poor area so little resources or motivation to fix or reinforce anything.
Or is it a case of not admitting how bad shit is, and just being in denial until the grid fails?
ding ding ding! consumers thinking they are getting their money’s worth in a monopoly until everything has fallen apart is the goal.
Noam Chomsky wrote something about this didn’t he? Defund state institutions so they perform badly and consumers want private services, use corruption to ensure a private company gets a monopoly, private company overcharges and underdelivers. Repeat until AnCap utopia ™ is reached and society collapses.
I’m not sure but that sounds right. Whether or not he said it, that is definitely what we are dealing with. I’ll just start shooting(targets in Minecraft) if I have to use ups instead of USPS in a few years.
if I have to use ups instead of USPS in a few years.
I live in a place where the public postal service is useless due to neoliberalism. It sucks
