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      231 year ago

      Privatized public transportation rarely works. At most you'll find some success stories of companies that partnered with a government to jointly service a transportation line.

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      211 year ago

      Typical conservative strategy:

      • Public thing exists
      • Become a lead weight in government so public thing gets underfunded and cannot adapt to market changes.
      • Public thing no longer meets expectations.
      • "See? It should be privatized and you won't have this issue"
      • Privatize thing. A few people make a crap load of money in the transition. Thing starts out acceptable for the first few years.
      • "Oh no, capitalism uses an infinite growth ponzi model. How do we increase shareholder value this year?"
      • Private thing gets underfunded and consumers get manipulated and abused.

      Are we winning yet?

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      201 year ago

      I disagree. Aside from privately owned Brightline who already owns the land around their stations, owns their tracks, and has a lot of incentive to expand their coverage, I have not heard of a single other piece of privatized infrastructure that actually benefits the users or actively engages in expansion

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      191 year ago

      Didn't England already go through that, and wasn't it a complete failure ? someone knowledgeable quick please

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        81 year ago

        Relevant video: https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=y-muiI81MKk3gin0

        Privatized railways are mostly failures most of the time. Besides Brightline, and I think a bunch of the Japanese railway companies, no nation really has privatized passenger rail. But I think the Japanese system has a weird setup.

        Actually, I think Italy and Germany have started allowing private companies to operate on their railways, but I think they need to fit it between the nationalized services. I could be wrong about that tho.

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      101 year ago

      Absolutely fucking not. Privatisation is literally the worst thing you could do. Do we really want some random assholes to own something we rely on and try to squeeze it for as much profit as possible? I don't, fuck capitalism