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by const_cast
356 days ago
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I disagree fundamentally - as more things got privatized in the US, you can clearly see the degradation of our services. For example, the NYC subway. The reality is we are now paying a lot of money for some of the worse public services we've ever had. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, our public services were considerably higher quality - AND this is with increased labor. We've managed to significantly lower labor cost through technology, and yet the quality has degraded. We've tried the theory of privatization. In fact we keep trying it over and over. Look around you. Is it working? Yes or no? No, right? Then we should be on the same page. |
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The question is whether this is caused by privatization or by corruption. Obviously if you constrain who can bid on the contract so that it can only go to some well-connected paymasters who overcharge and underdeliver, things are going to go poorly.
> We've tried the theory of privatization. In fact we keep trying it over and over. Look around you. Is it working?
In which place are we incarcerating the politicians who deliver the contracts to their cronies?