It really puzzles me why people think 'privatization' will cost less. If anything it would cost more because you first have to pay the CEOS and stockholders their cut before anything else gets done. And the CEOS *always* gets their cut.
It's part of their religion to believe that anything done by government is bloated and inefficient, and anything done by a for-profit corporation is lean and mean. (They are usually right about the "mean" ;-()
Whereas the concept that "for profit" will want the maximum possible profit is only really to them as a motivation for being ever more efficient (slash even more jobs etc.) not for rent-seeking, charging whatever the market will bear, coluding with what little competition they have in price fixing, etc. etc.
Being in essence a religious belief, anyone with counter-evidence should be shunned as unbelievers, and their evidence treated as having been manufactured by Satan.
I have no idea *why* they believe in this particular religion, but it's certainly had plenty of proselytizing, and many people convert to whatever their neighbours/allies/tribe believe.
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Whereas the concept that "for profit" will want the maximum possible profit is only really to them as a motivation for being ever more efficient (slash even more jobs etc.) not for rent-seeking, charging whatever the market will bear, coluding with what little competition they have in price fixing, etc. etc.
Being in essence a religious belief, anyone with counter-evidence should be shunned as unbelievers, and their evidence treated as having been manufactured by Satan.
I have no idea *why* they believe in this particular religion, but it's certainly had plenty of proselytizing, and many people convert to whatever their neighbours/allies/tribe believe.
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