That’s kind of the point of public services. They have to service everyone equally. If that makes them inefficient, so be it. It makes them more fair. The eff

That’s kind of the point of public services. They have to service everyone equally. If that makes them inefficient, so be it. It makes them more fair. The efficiencies of the private companies you speak of also disenfranchise portions of the population. If we privatize schools, poor kids wouldn’t get an education, because their parents couldn’t afford it. As a society, we’ve decided that isn’t fair, so education is a public service. And that analogy can be applied to a lot of services. Sometimes some of us have to give up a little quality so that others can have anything at all. That’s my 2cents. Edit: I don’t think I had enough coffee before I wrote all that, because I didn’t read the above comment well enough. Part of what I wanted to say is that efficiency doesn’t have to be about how well it serves an individual. It can be measured by how well it serves a population. Which then factors in fairness. We can’t measure the efficiency of a road based on how many cars can drive on it, whe what matters is how many people can move on it. (Buses and bikes allow for higher throughput.) The mail system can’t really be considered efficient if only some people can use it. It may get one letter from point a to b fast, but the systems effciency depends on serving everyone.