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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The only instances where privatized offerings may work IMO is if the government themselves are the competition, acting as a "control".

Without a stable control that has the sole purpose of serving the people, fully privatized offerings will just squeeze more money out of already stretched households for profit as you've said... which is the case for practically everything RN