• Brumefey@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    I’m from Europe and I don’t have any single example of privatisation leading to improvement. Everything went shittier and more expensive due to privatisation. The perfect example is in France with EDF (electricity).

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, but it will make the line go up.

    We must feed the beast our flesh and our happiness. We must scrape our souls to the rind, and hollow our humanity. We must empty the deep well of society that is fed by our interconnectedness. We must pour it all into the gaping maw of capitalism.

    The line must go up.

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    Anyone who seriously proposes privatizing the US postal service should be removed from power. They’re either trying to harm the US, or are too stupid to be trusted with anything more dangerous than a paper towel.

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    2 days ago

    The only reason to privatize the USPS is to be able to take loans against the pension so you can indirectly steal the pension.

    This benefits no one.

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    Keep in mind that it would be signigncantly worse in the US due to lower population density and worse infrastructure, too.