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Farkasok t1_j1myxwd wrote

Reply to comment by network_dude in Is Solar Energy for Home Really Worth it in the US: Expert Answers by daleelsayarat-cars

There’s a lot of competition in the Solar industry. If there was egregious price gouging going on by a handful of companies, then one company would step in and beat out everyone just by having better prices.

Unfortunately it’s not so simple, there’s a lot of factors involved in Solar, it’s not just the install that costs money, you have to pay the salesmen, the setters, the customer support teams, the site surveyors, and the install crew.

I understand your frustration though, shits expensive rn and we’re all paying out the ass for everything.

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network_dude t1_j1qcxi7 wrote

If solar were priced correctly there would be wide adoption

especially with the rise in home energy pricing

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Farkasok t1_j1s49in wrote

We have a free market and if Solar truly is so cheap to make, why has a company not popped up and just undercut all of the competition?

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network_dude t1_j1vj383 wrote

Free Market? There's no such thing as Free Markets. it's been gone for 15-20 years. Any discussion of free markets is from a capitalist point of view that they own and control their market - That's what passes for free markets today.

Every vertical market has been bought and consolidated by corporations. The people that make up the boards of these corporations are on the boards of 200+ other corporations.

Which brings us to the next point:

Collusion

The most obvious example of this - Big Pharma

There is sooo much price gouging going on, every single multi-millionaire wants to be a billionaire. The only way for them to achieve this is exorbitant profiteering and suppression of wages

Anyone that makes moves to undercut the profits of a mega-corp gets bought out, as it is easier for them to buy out the competition than compete

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