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>Utilities were generally public prior to this. Which utilities do you believe were government-funded or government-owned in the West? I will grant you most wa
by hollerith 4mo ago
>Utilities were generally public prior to this.
Which utilities do you believe were government-funded or government-owned in the West? I will grant you most water supplies. Which other utilities?
- fidonz 4mo agoNZ: Electricity, gas, public transport, telecommunications.
- hollerith 4mo agoAnd have any of those NZ utilities been privatized? Where are these utilities that were public, then were privatized? Not AFAIK in the US where the intercity and freight rail lines, telegraph lines, telephone systems, natural-gas-distribution networks, electrical grid, cable-TV grid and last-mile internet networks started out private. Maybe in Britain? But if so, the person I replied to should make it clear that his critique applies only to Britain.
- jodrellblank 4mo agoHere's 114 companies formerly nationalised in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_nationalised_industries_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_nationalised_i... or currently nationalised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_the... Electric, Gas distribution, British Petroleum, British Telecom, Bank of England, other banks like Bradford & Bingley, Royal Mail, regional water companies, shipbuilding, aeroplane, car, iron, and steel manufacturing, nuclear power, canals and waterways, coal mining, munitions factories, pubs, zinc smelting, airlines, Ordnance Survey Mapping, National Highways, BBC and Channel 4 broadcasting, The Crown Estate, Nuclear Laboratory, UK Hydrographic office, Meteorological Office, Genomics England, Student Loans Company, Civil Aviation Authority, Porton Biopharma...