You're right. Basic things like water, food, clothing and shelter from the elements should be a right, not a privilege. Bit in this profit driven world, sadly, this is not a thing, unless you own the mineral rights to your property and have your own well. You will still have to figure out a way to pump it into your house but once you have it set up, it's yours.
I had a house in Caribou, Maine like that. My well, my well pump and related piping. I had to pay for the electricity and repairs, but it was all mine, until I learned that I had to share that water with my neighbors because my well pump pumped water from an underground aquifer, which they tapped into as well.
Or contaminated it with pesticides and horse manure or the runoff thereof that leeched down into the soil and into the aquifer. It was an expensive lesson at the time.
Now, most of us have to depend on local services contracted by a local authority for our clean potable water. We have to pay for the privilege of having this life saving water piped into our homes and businesses. Unless you want to go out in the backcountry and dig your own well or set up a filtration system capable of filtering lake or river water before pumping it into your backwoods house. I don't know which is cheaper in the long run or an annual basis.
We're stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to food, water and shelter. We're dependent on failing government systems to provide us with these basic life giving needs. As we can see around the world in a lot of western countries, these governments are failing their people when it comes to providing these things at a reasonable exchange. A lot of people in the developed countries are going to find out within the next couple of decades just what it feels like to not have access to the basics anymore. The American south west is starting to feel the pinch right now. It's only going to spread and get worse while Trump and Musk carry out their personal grievances with each other in all of the media feeds across the known world. This just goes to show how much the rich people care about such things. The people like them will be the last ones to feel the loss of clean water and food.
You're right. Basic things like water, food, clothing and shelter from the elements should be a right, not a privilege. Bit in this profit driven world, sadly, this is not a thing, unless you own the mineral rights to your property and have your own well. You will still have to figure out a way to pump it into your house but once you have it set up, it's yours.
I had a house in Caribou, Maine like that. My well, my well pump and related piping. I had to pay for the electricity and repairs, but it was all mine, until I learned that I had to share that water with my neighbors because my well pump pumped water from an underground aquifer, which they tapped into as well.
Or contaminated it with pesticides and horse manure or the runoff thereof that leeched down into the soil and into the aquifer. It was an expensive lesson at the time.
Now, most of us have to depend on local services contracted by a local authority for our clean potable water. We have to pay for the privilege of having this life saving water piped into our homes and businesses. Unless you want to go out in the backcountry and dig your own well or set up a filtration system capable of filtering lake or river water before pumping it into your backwoods house. I don't know which is cheaper in the long run or an annual basis.
We're stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to food, water and shelter. We're dependent on failing government systems to provide us with these basic life giving needs. As we can see around the world in a lot of western countries, these governments are failing their people when it comes to providing these things at a reasonable exchange. A lot of people in the developed countries are going to find out within the next couple of decades just what it feels like to not have access to the basics anymore. The American south west is starting to feel the pinch right now. It's only going to spread and get worse while Trump and Musk carry out their personal grievances with each other in all of the media feeds across the known world. This just goes to show how much the rich people care about such things. The people like them will be the last ones to feel the loss of clean water and food.