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That’s a massive stretch for “socialize the losses”.

By that logic any time a business fails and it impacts a lot of people the losses have “been socialized”.

And CA is far from a free market. The PUC has PG&E on a short leash and the results have been a disaster.

Edit: Replying - No, bankruptcy is actually the exact opposite of socializing losses.




How do you think the bankrupt utility will start up again?

Hint: Socialized costs.


Another energy company will likely buy them. How is that socializing costs?

People throw that term around without actually knowing what it means


California was the first state to try deregulation of the energy market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–01_California_electricity...


Yeah and the regulations put in place around the market were terrible.




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