[krageon]

It's improbably hilarious how you basically don't deviate from personal attacks and strawmen at any point in your post.

You don't provide a foundation for the counters to the arguments the GP makes (f.e. you propose smaller corporations wouldn't have "pointless growth and consumption", without substantiating how you feel such a thing is possible with capitalism as described and commonly understood).

You call "public funding" magical thinking, but in the point right before that you mention something should be "a simple utility". Those are publically funded.

And of course we should not forget these are strawmen and/or personal attacks. This is not a respectable post that adds to the discussion, it's one that distracts and makes everything categorically worse.

[rglullis]

Where do you live that your electricity is public funded? Your water? Your phone/internet? Heating for your home?

Even on places where these things are run by public companies, they are not public funded. It's not like Governments give these for free and and/or come out of any government budget.