Any time you hear the word "privatization", you should be scared

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38. that's why i call it "piratization". it's glorified looting of the treasury.

inserting a profit when none in necessary or appropriate.

what private enterprise does better is allocate resources to those in greater need at the expense of those in lesser need.

when you have something like, say, the post office, whose mission is to provide a basic service equally to EVERYBODY, there's nothing about private enterprise that should automatically make it any better. instead, the conflicts between agent and principal take over and bad actors start doing rotten things that somehow benefit themselves.

most of the things government traditionally has done SHOULD be done by government, not by private enterprise.

private enterprise should do what private enterprise does better, of course, there's plenty of room for that.

but things that are essential for everyone, and from which virtually everyone benefits, should be left to government.