>Furthermore, do you trust your city to properly maintain said infrastructure? Because I sure as hell don't. I hear this criticism quite a bit, but I really do

>Furthermore, do you trust your city to properly maintain said infrastructure? Because I sure as hell don't. I hear this criticism quite a bit, but I really don't understand. Do we have any evidence at all that the government is actually less efficient, less trustworthy than private companies? The problem we're discussing is caused by private companies not living up to their responsibilities. There are endless examples of this other places as well. Sure, there are dangers inherent in public services that are not present in private, but the inverse is true as well. What we're talking about in this specific instance is infrastructure that is a societal benefit, and if that doesn't fall into the domain of public government, I don't know what does.