More Brooke Adams!

> what the benefits of switching to consumer owned really will be

We will have more control.

Every other benefit can come from that.

> The evidence for ability to respond to down times is basic logic

Logic is not evidence; it's just the basis of hypotheses. Anyway, if we take over CMP Connecticut and the rest of the country can follow our lead. What's illogical is organizing society's needs based on private ownership and profit.

Is there any evidence of that based on the experiences of the many consumer owned utilities in Maine and elsewhere?

Pine Tree Power would have oversight from the Maine Public Utilities Commission. You can't cancel your electric service any differently now than you could under public power, so that's not an argument for private ownership. You sound privileged to have an HR team that will fight for you.

Because private cable companies and health insurance are not bureaucratic nightmares?

What unintended consequences? How would there be fewer workers under public ownership?

That's physically impossible. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-nonsense_n_5b1ed024e4b0bbb7a0e037d4

Enlighten me.

Stocks are ownership stakes in companies. The workers of those companies are the ones generating the profits you're benefiting from without working.

Sounds like you're not able to defend your position.

Houses were cheaper relative to wages.

Not the contributions, the gains are made off of the labor of others.

Like all those Africans who were kidnapped and brought here? The British who were forced off their land after Enclosure?

We should discourage non owner occupied landlording too.

Huh? How did we consent to this?

Ok Boomer. Times have changed.

A 401k millionaire is literally wealthy off of other people's labor.

Here, this argument is a cartoon so I can understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL1mSrPLA&t=1487s

> I imagine you'll grow out of your edgy communist phase one day, most of us do.

Cute

Your argument is that Capitalism is better because Capitalism is winning. If a colonial ship decimates an undeveloped Island of indigenous people, does that mean colonialism is better? No, it just means one group had more power than the other.

You can do better than that. Capitalist countries such as the United States were founded on genocide and slavery. "Countries run by political parties calling themselves Communist committed mass murder therefore Communism as a system doesn't work" is a specious argument. Capitalism works neither in theory nor practice.

Yes. Normalize communism.

Communism will solve the problem.