• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So you’re telling me if I found a way reach all my fellow power company customers we could strike and lower our power rates?

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      5 days ago

      Many states have very regulated utility prices: you may need just a half dozen buddies and get appointed to the oversight board that approves rates

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      4 days ago

      In the short term, yes. The money you’ve saved is now considered “disposable income” and will be absorbed by the next person in line.

      If a paycheck could make you wealthy, no one would give you a paycheck. A retirement account CAN make you wealthy but only after the machine has squeezed 40+ years out of you. But one way or another that money is leaving your hands and flowing back into the system.