• beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s in canada also. My gf had to pay a rental payment fee for the system they use. Same with enwin utilities in ontario. They just installed a new tax for no reason.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      Oh it’s for a reason, and that reason is “capitalism”.

      Their investors want not just profits but profit growth. So companies have to come up with new avenues of extracting money from their consumers. It’s a fundamental feature of the capitalist system.

      And so long as they have private ownership over these things, there is about jack all we can do to stop them.