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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:
A thing that many people don't realise,is that if you get neoliberals in your government, they will actively work on making your government work worse.
Neoliberals want services, like transit, healthcare, etc, to be privatised because their friends can make profit off of running these thing. People will not want these services to be privatised if they run well.
The classic playbook, and this playbook has been running for about as long as I've lived, is to starve government services from money, while also making them more bureaucratic than they need to be. This makes these services inefficient, insufficient, and over time, unpopular.
When the quality of these services becomes bad enough, and the reputation of these services bad enough, the neoliberals in government will start saying that privatisation is the only way to improve these services (for example in the case of healthcare), or that people just prefer to use a private alternative (for example driving in the case of rail). Of course, they purposely ignore that these options only seem better because they've been ruining the governmental services themselves.
In short, governmental services don't need to be bureaucratic and shit, we can choose to make them at least, if not more so, as good as the private options.