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Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.

jmcgough 1y ago
Next up is the postal service.
mlinhares 1y ago
Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing. If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.
- fastball 1y ago
  Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.
  - Retric 1y ago
    The quiet parks of government really are, privatizing the VA was looked into several times but the numbers were prohibitive. It took me a while to realize there’s just less money to be made when the system actually works.
    - fastball 1y ago
      Realistically this is only because our private sector in that area is incredibly broken, not because the government is doing an incredible job.
      - Retric 1y ago
        There’s many other comparisons where the government comes out ahead when you balance quality of what’s done vs cost. The overhead of the social security administration is far lower than other pensions, and that’s with everyone else piggybacking backing off your SSN. Some of this is scale but economies of scale only go so far.
  - Wololooo 1y ago
    Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done. One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated. And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)
    - mlinhares 1y ago
      No natural monopolies should ever be privatized and there's no reason to have more than one entity collecting weather data. Also, this has been one of the best and most reliable services provided by the government, no one ever bothers thinking about the weather because its always there and it is also very right. Maybe they were just too good and now everyone thinks this is easy and every single other country works like this with weather service. I'm in florida and I know i'm fucked this hurricane season.
    - fastball 1y ago
      When Japan privatized their train system, the system improved massively.
guywithahat 1y ago
I feel like there's important context here, such as this company was founded before Trump entered office, and the government weather balloons were so inefficient that a private company thought they could compete with free data. Government weather data is exactly the kind of thing that should be private.

Next up is the postal service.

Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing. If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.

fastball 1y ago
Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.
- Retric 1y ago
  The quiet parks of government really are, privatizing the VA was looked into several times but the numbers were prohibitive. It took me a while to realize there’s just less money to be made when the system actually works.
  - fastball 1y ago
    Realistically this is only because our private sector in that area is incredibly broken, not because the government is doing an incredible job.
    - Retric 1y ago
      There’s many other comparisons where the government comes out ahead when you balance quality of what’s done vs cost. The overhead of the social security administration is far lower than other pensions, and that’s with everyone else piggybacking backing off your SSN. Some of this is scale but economies of scale only go so far.
- Wololooo 1y ago
  Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done. One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated. And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)
  - mlinhares 1y ago
    No natural monopolies should ever be privatized and there's no reason to have more than one entity collecting weather data. Also, this has been one of the best and most reliable services provided by the government, no one ever bothers thinking about the weather because its always there and it is also very right. Maybe they were just too good and now everyone thinks this is easy and every single other country works like this with weather service. I'm in florida and I know i'm fucked this hurricane season.
  - fastball 1y ago
    When Japan privatized their train system, the system improved massively.

guywithahat 1y ago

I feel like there's important context here, such as this company was founded before Trump entered office, and the government weather balloons were so inefficient that a private company thought they could compete with free data. Government weather data is exactly the kind of thing that should be private.