ProudKangaroo wrote on May 21
st, 2024 at 10:24am:
Gnads wrote on May 20
th, 2024 at 3:00pm:
freediver wrote on Apr 10
th, 2022 at 7:53pm:
For far more fundamental reasons - the government should not be running these businesses in the first place.
Water & electricity generation & supply should not ever be in the hands of "private enterprise".
It is not a panacea to everything and small to corporate businesses go belly up everyday.
Why do they fail?
It depends on what your goal is.
To me, the goal of providing an essential service, like power, water, health and even the Internet these days, is a focus on providing the service and the positive outcomes those services deliver.
The moment you privatise that, the priority is to deliver the bare minimum service, for the highest price at the lowest cost to the business.
The level of service reduced to what is considered the absolute minimum required by regulatory standards IF any even exist, and innovation focuses on cost-cutting and efficiency, not on improving the service.
Those who think the Government shouldn't be running businesses are purely ideologically based.
There are no good outcomes to privatisation where the result is we have to pay more for less and in the cases of vital services, when things go wrong our tax dollars have to bail them out.
We should not be incentivising turning the people into commodities when it comes to basic needs just to transfer wealth to those who donate the most to politicians.
absolute crap
almost everything that functions well
your car, your iphone, your lap top, your local supermarket , your petrol station, your bakery, your milk supply , your entertainment be it football or horse racing
is run seamlessly and well by PRIVATE industry
almost everything that is a cock up
your public schools, your casualty departments, your court system, your response to fire ants , your olympics , your roads (apart from our smooth tollways), your hospital ramping and public transport
is run hopelessly inefficiently by PUBLIC government over complicated , over bureaucratised, paper shuffling, empire building, unaccountable public servants .
the more we privatise the better off we are
ask russia or venezuela