• 💡dim@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The mistake was that we entrusted this stuff to private enterprise in the first place.

    This is the root of the issue. That whole privatization was a scam as well. It was abandoned in the mid eighties because public opinion was so negative and the Tories realised it would be a key election factor. Then, once they got back in, they went ahead with it anyway.

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      1 year ago

      It’s self serving and short termist in the worst way. We reap the consequences down the road but still bizarrely, and despite all evidence, the view that the private sector is somehow always better persists among some.