The headline sounds like a warning for a future event, but us poor folks in the real world already figured that out a few months ago.
Until last year, the “free European energy market” was advertised in Bulgaria, or so it was, and how business would be improved by including it in the free energy market … Now some municipalities are forced to make a regime of street lighting, and pharmacies for example, they either raise the prices of medicines / for which they can / or they will go bankrupt again with high electricity bills. And in Norway, where electricity was available on the open market, but cheap electricity suddenly multiplied a monstrous amount, international operators most brazenly said that if the water flow is replenished (which justifies the high price) they will still sell it at a higher price. because the opposite would be contrary to competition law and the like. An unregulated free market is simply an orgy of eating competition or making a profit by leaning on ill-conceived laws with many loopholes.
Good to know. Ill just stop using everything and be happy. “… You will own nothing and be happy…”
*laughs in living in flat*
I expect my new rate to triple in January. No idea how I’m gonna pay for it. Guess I’ll have to do without light and buy candles. At least they’ll give of a tiny bit of warmth.
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21st Century: “Take that precariat! Give up yet?”
The headline sounds like a warning for a future event, but us poor folks in the real world already figured that out a few months ago.
Until last year, the “free European energy market” was advertised in Bulgaria, or so it was, and how business would be improved by including it in the free energy market … Now some municipalities are forced to make a regime of street lighting, and pharmacies for example, they either raise the prices of medicines / for which they can / or they will go bankrupt again with high electricity bills. And in Norway, where electricity was available on the open market, but cheap electricity suddenly multiplied a monstrous amount, international operators most brazenly said that if the water flow is replenished (which justifies the high price) they will still sell it at a higher price. because the opposite would be contrary to competition law and the like. An unregulated free market is simply an orgy of eating competition or making a profit by leaning on ill-conceived laws with many loopholes.
Good to know. Ill just stop using everything and be happy. “… You will own nothing and be happy…”
*laughs in living in flat*
I expect my new rate to triple in January. No idea how I’m gonna pay for it. Guess I’ll have to do without light and buy candles. At least they’ll give of a tiny bit of warmth.