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by MichaelAO 1132 days ago
Why are you afraid of privatization? The government monopoly hasn't exactly been stellar.
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Go look at what privatization did to water and trains in the UK.

It's turned into absolute trash. Utter, absolute disaster. Everything privatized by the Tories has been a complete civic disaster.

Massive sewage discharges, foreign shareholders stripping assets with zero investment for the future, late trains, bad rolling stock.

A complete disaster. Like American healthcare.

Don't wish this shit on your worst enemies.

Anyone arguing otherwise is either a rich grifter trying to sponge from the public purse or a poor moron who's been convinced by the rich grifters to vote against their own best interest.

Capitalism does not work on utilities like schooling, healthcare, energy, water, public transportation, etc. at all. It's used as a way to strip public funds by corruption and bribery. Just like we know communist governments don't work, we also know privatising public services don't work.

Government services work just fine in other countries where there isn't one party that gets into power to make sure the service fails so they can pocket the tax money instead.
not ready to give up on equality of opportunity yet.
This doesn’t exist to begin with. “Good” school districts are already far more expensive to both rent and purchase real estate in.
Therefore we should not bother making things better?
I didn’t say that?
"Equality of opportunity" is the goal to aspire to. Of course we can only approach it, so your distinction does not make much sense to interject here.
Private schools and the equality of opportunity have no relation inherently. So I’m not sure what your point is.

Equality of opportunity is also an impossible thing to achieve.