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Privatization: Good idea or evil corporate monster?

Privatization: Good idea or evil corporate monster?

Depends on the industry.

Depends on the industry.
Could you be more specific?

Everything should be privatised.

Evil corporate monster! Always evil corporate monster regardless of the question!

Evil corporate monster! Always evil corporate monster regardless of the question!

socialist. :rolleyes:

Evil corporate monster! Always evil corporate monster regardless of the question!
Genius :D

Evil corporate monster! Always evil corporate monster regardless of the question!
Lol.
"What's your name?"
"Evil corporate monster!"

socialist. :rolleyes:
lol. I second that.

"Please get your political terms straight! 'Communism' means 'Everyone wearing glasses gets their heads staved in with rifle butts,' while 'Socialism' means 'Drinks and smokes on the middle class!'"
-Steve Mayer

Could you be more specific?

Some services should be provided to the public regardless of whether it is profitable business to do so. If private enterprise won't provide something necessary, then the public sector should. This doesn't mean that a private equivalent shouldn't exist as well (eg health care, education)

Also, some things are just too impractical to privatise. An example in Britain would be the rail network. Different people own the tracks and different train operators, so everybody can always blame everyone else and no one takes responsibility for anything. So we end up with a piece of shit railway that would be cheaper to take apart and start again, than to maintain. A private railway may be workable, of course, but not based off a decrepit former public network.

lol. I second that.

"Please get your political terms straight! 'Communism' means 'Everyone wearing glasses gets their heads staved in with rifle butts,' while 'Socialism' means 'Drinks and smokes on the middle class!'"
-Steve Mayer

I say drinks and smokes on the middle class, so that must make me a true socialist. I thought the other one was a totalitarian disctatorship. Communism only exists on small farms in Oregon and in utopian dreams. :D

For the record, I'd prefer a benevolnet dictatorship where I rule with a godlike fist, but I scored a 4.5 so whatta expect?

Some services should be provided to the public regardless of whether it is profitable business to do so. If private enterprise won't provide something necessary, then the public sector should. This doesn't mean that a private equivalent shouldn't exist as well (eg health care, education)

Also, some things are just too impractical to privatise. An example in Britain would be the rail network. Different people own the tracks and different train operators, so everybody can always blame everyone else and no one takes responsibility for anything. So we end up with a piece of shit railway that would be cheaper to take apart and start again, than to maintain. A private railway may be workable, of course, but not based off a decrepit former public network.
Rail privatisation has been diasaterous. Mass public transport railways do not work. If we want trains that are fast, efficient , on time and cheap the only answer is nationalised. The current system doesn't even make a true profit - the companies bid for how much subsidy they want and the lowest bid gets the franchise. Thats a recipe for a poor quality expensive service. Britain has persistantly undervalued and under supported the railway system for several decades. We got so used to it we don't even realise how bad it's got.
Sorry, rant over but when I go abroad and use trains in other countries it is just embarrasing how bad ours are...

Privatisation? It's a good idea, but can go both ways. As long as there is competition, it's all good. :) Monopoly? Then.. can go bad bad (most of the times).

Everything but education or health care should be privatized (I think this word "privatized" don´t exist, sorry, english is not my mother language), education and health care should be the same for everyone, should not have an equivalent. Let´s see how education suddenly get a lot better when rich people´s kids go to the same as school as the poor one´s.
The rest though, should belong to a corporation, corporations take much better care of energy problems, for example, and the money we pay them would compesate over the fact that we no longer would have to pay taxes for this specific subject.

Should a countries military be privatised? That would be interesting though.. We would have warlords.

Privatization: Good idea or evil corporate monster?

Is this your "PRIVI" site?