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Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] regul@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!

[โ€“] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The expectation of people to have free or subsidised light to be able to see really is some magic money tree problem caused by labor and migrants.