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by 1letterunixname 1175 days ago
"Please insert your FriendlyCard to unlock the street in front of your house."

And toll turnpikes.

"Public-Private Partnerships" are neoliberal fantasies of privatized, for-profit monopolies performing government functions while taxing working people. Most often, there is some sort of corrupt and unethical favoritism and revolving door between government official(s) and the vendor corporation.