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My favorite eye-roll was a random YT short of a power washer dude driving down an interstate in his behemoth diesel (his equipment could've fit in a large sedan
by thechao 2y ago
My favorite eye-roll was a random YT short of a power washer dude driving down an interstate in his behemoth diesel (his equipment could've fit in a large sedan), complaining that he only pays taxes to the gov't but gets no benefit from it, streaming the video over cellular.
- ryandrake 2y ago...drinking clean water, breathing in clean air, on his way to buy safe, disease-free food from the supermarket...
- hellojesus 2y agoAll of this could just as well be created by the private sector.
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- tetris11 2y agoFiduciury duty, and the lack of a regulatory body to ensure some semblance of actual competition means that that private industry would likely not act in the interests of the public
- hellojesus 2y agoThe public only has an interest in public goods. And those are still provided by the state. Private goods should be influenced by private transactions, and competiton guides those to optimal market-based outcomes.
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- tetris11 2y agoYou're advocating for the privatization of clean drinking water, breathable air, and disease-free food. Have you seen what has happened to the UK in the past 10 years? Do you still believe that privatization was a net benefit there? The only way to guarantee competition is to punish predatory practices of large companies against small ones, which means, surprise, regulation.