I'd prefer them to be mostly municipal or collectively owned by multiple municipalities over making them state-owned. Obviously power generation is big enough for it to be state-owned to be a workable choice.

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Power generation is easy to be competitive though.

	▲	mordae 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes and no. It is until you need to phase out coal or do a nuclear buildout. And it is still critical infrastructure. And if you underbuild it becomes a problem for the users. And if you overbuild... well, let's assume investors won't let you do that. So, once public sector guarantees demand for decades upfront, it becomes more sensible for it to just have the plant older-built and run it itself.

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bakies 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

thats the government

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mordae 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh. No? There are people elected to work at say EU level, national (country) level, regional level and municipal level. The mix can be different parties and in many places the municipal councils and mayors don't even have to be in a major political party.

You have it similar in US. I bet a mayor can build sewers, collect garbage and build a lot of roads without asking the governor or president.

Or did you conflate government with public sector?

	▲	bakies 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		huh? yes? they're all the government