ricecake , 10 months ago

I actually live in a city where the public works is a publicly owned utility, and it’s pretty great. Rates are reasonable, excess revenue goes to infrastructure improvements rather than shareholders, and leadership is paid reasonably ($300k+benefits for CEO equivalent), and key decisions are voted on by the city council.

I’m curious why you want something separate from the government. To me, a crowd funded publicly controlled service is a government service in all but name and accountability.