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Your argument boils down to "public service is awful". The article simply states that privatizing is simply making things worse. Privatizing is not the solutio
by grive 10y ago
Your argument boils down to "public service is awful". The article simply states that privatizing is simply making things worse.
Privatizing is not the solution. You said yourself: "We pay far too little for services like water". Well, yeah. Stop paying so damn little for your infrastructure then.
Your critique of public service is that it is unable to function with so little ressource. I don't see that as a failure from the public service itself, but from the society that should be making it work.
And I mean society, not government. It's too easy to fault the big bad government for being unable to do it. That's the taxpayers that are in the end voting for populists that will pledge to reduce spending and taxes to unrealistic levels, breaking public services, preparing the terrain for privatization and selling to their friends.
Anyway.
- rayuela 10y agoThat's not what he says at all. In fact the points he makes are quite good. Maybe actually read the comment you reply to first?
- humanrebar 10y ago> I don't see that as a failure from the public service itself, but from the society that should be making it work. One of the strongest critiques of the public sector is the perverse incentives it creates, including things like irrationally underfunding valuable resources. Dismissing that critique offhand is to misunderstand how strong the argument is.
- rayiner 10y ago> Stop paying so damn little for your infrastructure then. That's very difficult when the services are public and prices are politicized. Nobody wants to campaign on raising water and sewer rates, no matter how desperately that is needed.