"Defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." -- Noam Chomsky What people miss about privatization is that deli

"Defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." -- Noam Chomsky What people miss about privatization is that deliberate defunding and deliberate enshittification are always the first and second steps. Then the private sector "rescues" you from the deliberately engineered incompetence of the public sector while taking a fat, fat cut. It's the same reason why I'm struggling to see a doctor in the UK right now (the tories want US style healthcare profit margins). Or why the USPS has to fund pensions for yet to be born employees.