i would rather be at the mercy of an inert, unresponsive government bureaucracy than a rapacious private entity wholly devoted to sucking every last penny out of every single interaction
even when the Reaganite dogma that the government is bad at delivering services directly is true, it ends up that's almost entirely because of Reaganite sabotage of service delivery in order to support convoluted schemes to induce the private sector while allowing them to take a cut.
the mythology of 'private sector is more efficient because that's how they make profit' is as silly as American Exceptionalism lol
private sector don't want to be efficient, they want inefficient monopolies they can extract rent from with minimal effort, that is literally the goal of all business
Every time privatization comes up, I like to bring up Colorado Springs and that time they privatized their infrastructure, mostly because I know if it went anywhere every libertarian and small government politico would have repeated it on loop. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
I think most boomers honestly aren't fans of this shit either
the fans are people that never need to actually use their own tools
all these techbros have concierge doctors and personal assistants and brokers
Business is inherently inefficient, that's what the profit margin is, all profits are inefficiency. That before any other corporate maliese creeps in like, lazy executives or pass the blame management.
even if you imagine like the most ideal efficient competitive Trucking Company they’re going to (1) redundantly develop tech and strategies along other trucking companies and (2) compete for contracts with Train Companies this introducing systemic inefficiency
