Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:59:02 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="46f472238cb182162f27b263147b76a2"; logging-data="2479660"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AhBW8PgdV618PjEMiAOLgJVIpFF68AYc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VbxOsPFbaVwbPuhoDAwE2F9nE44= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 240711-0, 11/7/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2390 On 11/07/2024 3:18 am, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:52:49 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 09:24:30 -0000 (UTC), RJH >> wrote: >> >>> On 9 Jul 2024 at 05:04:24 BST, Bill Sloman wrote: >> Why end "capitalism"? Economic and intellectual plualism works. > > So does a mixed economy of both private enterprise and publicly-owned > bodies if the size of the state sector can be constrained. Unfortunately, > states have a tendency to grow themselves if not kept in strict check and > this is in large part responsible for the truly *vast* debt burden now > carried on the back of so many Western countries. Most western countries have a whole lot of state-owned infra-structure, and their "debt" burden is what paid for it. Big companies are owned by a lot of share-holders who hold their debt, and collect dividends from the company. What's the difference? -- Bill Sloman, Sydney -- This email has been checked for viruses by Norton antivirus software. www.norton.com