Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Private Power & Gas Companies
Yay for privatisation. Whichever public servant twat that decided competition would provide better value to the consumer certainly forgot to factor in something.
Almost every week I get a phone call from someone who "isn't trying to sell me anything", which is technically correct, because they are trying to hoodwink me into changing from one generic provider to another generic provider, each of which have the exact same product, with their pricing set by the government, but give the illusion of better value by offering minor discounts and green-sounding plans.
And each phone call, or in this case door-knock (which requires me to find clothes to put on and then walk the length of the house, and back, and then take clothes off), costs me time, and therefore our country loses my productivity!
It's like the bloody public transport - competing companies that have different routes. Madness!
The sooner things that should be run by the government are return to public ownership, the better. Sure, telcos should be private, because the constant improvement due to competition is good (but perhaps the infrastructure should be public...) - but how on Earth is competition going to provide me with better quality electricity?
Wankers the lot of them.
Almost every week I get a phone call from someone who "isn't trying to sell me anything", which is technically correct, because they are trying to hoodwink me into changing from one generic provider to another generic provider, each of which have the exact same product, with their pricing set by the government, but give the illusion of better value by offering minor discounts and green-sounding plans.
And each phone call, or in this case door-knock (which requires me to find clothes to put on and then walk the length of the house, and back, and then take clothes off), costs me time, and therefore our country loses my productivity!
It's like the bloody public transport - competing companies that have different routes. Madness!
The sooner things that should be run by the government are return to public ownership, the better. Sure, telcos should be private, because the constant improvement due to competition is good (but perhaps the infrastructure should be public...) - but how on Earth is competition going to provide me with better quality electricity?
Wankers the lot of them.
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