Comment on How India’s power crisis is self-made & why we could face another crunch during the monsoon
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years agoAlmost all power crisises are self made. It’s actually pretty easy to make a grid and allow people to contribute to it, and it’s such a simple business model. Usually all power crises come from someone being afraid of pure economics. They always have to have a twist and it’s usually that twist that causes the problem.
You would even think that places like India would be most interested in doing it this way.
The reason that they do not likely goes back to the special relationships with private electric companies and coal miners & distributors have with the politicians.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Like everything else BIG govt manages, electricity outages are the product of public incompetency rather than private sector. An example of private sector efficiency in India ? Cheapest mobile data in the world 9 cents per GB in 2020
India's biggest enemy is its own huge size. A population 50% bigger than Europe combined, managed by 1 BIGGGG ASSS Govt. You US folk know what happens....
Even the State govt's dwarf entire nations. 1 state has bigger population than Russia. Centralised power sucks
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I believe it is the case that the tech providers in my country fix prices together and only incrementally improve. Honestly we have shitty plans and a decade of competition has never improved it.
Oligarchs make socialism, imo, to fleece us better.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Question is, what kind of 'competition'. In the US, mobile providers have 'competition', but they work together to take monopolistic control of regions.
In India too, there is similar corruption, but its still a growing market and the providers will rather fight each other than make such deals.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
As you know, I post about India a lot. I am fascinated with the place and also find that their local English language news coverage is just terrific, so I am drawn to it. The Print is a great resource.
How often do you go to India? Do you speak any Indian language or anything? I am aware that you are full or partly Indian descent.
One of my best dissident right buds is of Indian descent as well.