The US's entire concept of "freedom" is wrapped up in this too. If you take a service, for example household track/rubbish collection, that was being provided

The US's entire concept of "freedom" is wrapped up in this too. If you take a service, for example household track/rubbish collection, that was being provided inexpensively via a mandatory household tax and move that service to a private company who bills households individually even if it costs more, Americans view this as "progress" that is "more free" (because you could theoretical "opt out"). A lot of other places simply view this as handing a private company a monopoly that used to be a public good (i.e. required but cheap); and because they as citizens now have less money and the same service level, they only lost in terms of quality of life ("freedom" isn't a metric here). Plus the externalities of making it optional, like having people illegally discard their trash by the side of the road. This same thinking is prevalent throughout the US, from HOAs, to utilities (electric, gas, water, trash), to healthcare, to public transport, and so on. And none of it is REALLY about capitalism as these companies aren't competing with anyone else by the nature of the deal that was struck when the public service was sold. All people care about is "Keep government out of my X (even if it costs 2x as much)."