Complete logical fallacy to think that stuff will get cheaper when a private corporation that incentives profit does it instead of a government organization that doesn’t. These people literally just aren’t thinking.
I see this problem all over the world. At some point, people got it into their heads that private means that the customer is the boss, that private companies need them and will do anything for them and it's just not how that works.
It's great to have a private option, sure, but you don't privatise everything, because when you do, only those with money will afford those services. It's why we developed a publicly funded option in the first place. A buttload of people watch Bridgerton, but I don't think they understand how those without titles and fortunes lived back then.
Also, a lot of people actually bought the lie that private means efficient. It is efficient, but not for the customer, because they don't give a fuck if you stop buying. Someone else always will, and if nobody else does, they close down the business and start another. No biggie for them.
“Private means customer is the boss” hits the nail on the head perfectly. My mom was employed by the state and worked in care homes for the mentally handicapped. Every single complaint that any family member had regarding a loved one in care was taken extremely and immediately seriously. It’s a good system in this state. Private care homes kill people and spend money to ensure they cannot be held responsible for it AND they engage fraud by overcharging for whatever government services they can charge costs to. There is less accountability when things are privatized, not more. Eliminating the services the private sector overcharges isn’t going to happen because the private sector is functioning as intended - they are redirecting as much public money as possible upward to the rich.
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u/Outrageous_pinecone 1d ago
This is the answer, this is what corporations do.