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https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/pittsburgh-flint-veolia-privatization-public-water-systems-lead/ https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/pittsburgh-flint-veolia

• eru 3y ago
  Thanks. That looks perhaps like an instance of what the grand-father comment described: > I mean, it's on-brand; if the USA has bad things from too much privatization, it's poetic for the solution to be more privatization. The municipality of Flint that's mentioned in the article still was in charge of providing water. They just outsourced parts of that duty. More privatisation might have helped. Who knows?
  • orwin 3y ago
    How though? By making concurrent pipes companies? How many for an unregulated free market? 8? 10?
    • eru 3y ago
      Why do you need concurrent pipes?
      • wpietri 3y ago
        I think his point is that markets work through competition. If we have 10 different companies running pipes to every home in Flint, all run by separate companies, then we might be set. But with one, market mechanisms don't work, so a market fundamentalist ideology leads to bad outcomes.