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The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire (media.kbin.earth)
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town that always catches on fire rule

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It’s a money-sink and local governments don’t like that. The first things financially cut when I worked for a city of 170,000 were always services that didn’t make money. That’s just how it works.

The whole point of government is to collect taxes to pay for stuff that isn't revenue generating to spread out the costs!

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 week ago

Seriously, this. Government is supposed to fund services, not profitable businesses

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the government running businesses for profit is essentially the definition of socialism lol

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In what definition or context is this true?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of them? I'm not sure I understand the question.

First result on google for "socialism definition" as an example

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Governments running businesses is what "owning the means of production" means, in every context, by every definition.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I think we think of "profit" differently, but sure.