[SampleMan]

Nobody should make a profit from any of these amenities: they should be viewed as sunk costs, the price that Civilization pays for progress. They should be nationalized and provided at-cost, for the good of the Nation. Any country bold enough to do that would leap way, way ahead of other countries that insisted on siphoning off “profit” from what should be bare-bones commodity-priced Utilities for the public good.

Cuba, Venezuala, and the old Soviet Union pop to mind as models for your new utopia.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Cuba, Venezuala, and the old Soviet Union pop to mind as models for your new utopia.

Ancient Rome pops into my mind. Cuba, Venezuela and the old Soviet Union could not find their arse with both hands at the best of times. Ancient Rome, on the other hand, most certainly could.