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Privatization of government services

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

To replace privatized public housing with expensive condos, a UK company offered a wheelchair-bound man an inaccessible replacement apartment.

Since he rejects that useless offer, he gets one more option: homelessness for him and his family.

This is an instance of how privatization of government services creates both opportunities and pressure to cheat people. In practice, those companies get their profit by underserving the public and/or paying workers less.

There may be some public services that don't really need to exist as public services, but the rest should not be privatized.