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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

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.