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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Public private partnerships at the Federal level have historically just been elaborate grafts to enrich the already we
by Loughla 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted.
Public private partnerships at the Federal level have historically just been elaborate grafts to enrich the already wealthy at everyone's expense.
Ever read The Shock Doctrine?
- orwin 2y agoAll PPP have levels of grift. The only ones that don't have overwhelming bureaucracy oversight that makes them really, really inefficient and costly. In almost all cases, it's better for the state to build themselves, then lease/rent to private companies, or operate themselves in some cases. Basically free market is shit at central planning, and the state is shit at offering diversity and finding out preferences.
- jmyeet 2y agoWe know why. There are an awful lot of people who are either the wealthy who are exploiting the working class or, way more likely, they think they someday will be: > “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Why else would people fight so hard against Jeff Bezos paying slightly more in taxes? Jeff would use you as fertilizer or reactor shielding if it ticked up profits. You are not and will never be Jeff Bezos. HN just skews to people who aspire to be the exploiters.