• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Anything that makes you a captive market cannot be private or has to have a free public alternative.

    If there is a private non-free alternative, it is inevitable that eventually a politician will be corrupted and opt for less public funding hoping to artificially make the private one much better, and then get their share of the profits.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it may be better to just not allow private enterprises in anything that is required.

      Keep them to entertainment and the like.

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        1 year ago

        Then they just cut funding anyway and use poor performance to argue for privatization. See: NHS

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      1 year ago

      The legislative branch of the government should have representatives selected through sortition. It would solve a lot of problems.