Hello. This is Cartel, one of those lovely companies who came into the electricity-providing business when the government opened it up to the private sector.
When we started out, all of you were using incandescent bulbs and tube lights and stuff like that. Achche Din, right?
Now many of you are using power-saving CFL bulbs and even LED bulbs. This has cut into our revenue.
Yeah, yeah, sure, you're also using our electricity a whole lot more because now there are so many more electricity-powered devices available, but basically we resent you terribly for being subversive and using our bijli less for lighting. So, henceforth we will be charging you more money to provide power to your other devices, like ACs, TVs, computers, cellphones, electric vehicles and suchlike, to make up for what we're losing to the advance of technology, which we hadn't really accounted for in our business plan. Who knew, right?
How do we know what you're using the power for? Well, let's just say we have ways of looking into your home and seeing what's, heh, charging.
Why? Heck, because we can.
Written for Nikhil Pahwa, who is out there leading the good fight.
ye mere adhikar hai.ise chinna mere freedom me hastakshep karna hai.
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