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There is a financial incentive to keep things failure prone, because demand pricing allows them to make the same amount of revenue with whatever (lack of) production is available.
So when only a few neighborhoods still have power they just end up paying for the whole damn city. It’s nuts.
No that’s the non proportional voting system, gerrymandering, and electoral college system that allows the Republicans to get away with it.
Also add in the shit education, money = speech, and late stage capitalism bullshit to get the morons voting that way in the first place.