> Cerro Verde As it’s mining, I was kind of expecting the gov to just have laundered the env impacts to a private company, but it seems it actually has positiv

> Cerro Verde As it’s mining, I was kind of expecting the gov to just have laundered the env impacts to a private company, but it seems it actually has positive developments at this point: https://share.america.gov/peruvian-copper-mine-also-produces-clean-water/ https://share.america.gov/peruvian-copper-mine-also-produces... Kudos. > Telecom in India I don’t know much about India, from a quick it looked to me like they refused to privatize the low level (cable lying) infra for a long time, and are now in the process of looking into it: https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/telecom-may-be-first-strategic-sector-to-be-picked-up-for-privatisation-122092701054_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/telecom-... I must be missing something > airlines There was competition happening before the privatization though ? I only followed the european ones, but the quality of service and reliability mostly went down after the privatizations. The more interesting part to me is how much this industry resisted unleaded gas because of the costs associated. Could gov regulation be an answer to force a better direction when it makes no economic sense ? > competition 100% agree on not keeping blocking competition for non critical, lifeline services. I think gov managed infra is inherently prone to bloat and corruption, but that’s a price we pay to keep that infra working (postal service costing 20% more is better to me than 20% of the country losing access to postal service). That calculus doesn’t make sense when it comes to fields were other players are thriving and/or lower service quality isn’t life or death issues.