Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 11
th, 2022 at 11:28pm:
Saying 'privatisation is good' over and over will not alter the fact that in every 'privatised' 'venture' the cost to the end user has gone up for a lower standard of service.
Crap.
Do you have any evidence at all for this?
Quote:And for far more fundamental & moral reasons certain utility businesses like water & electricity generation/supply should not be in the hands of private enterprise.
Do you know what the reasons are?
Quote:It's a furphy/fallacy that only the private sector can run a business anyway.
Strawman. Even a communist government can run a business. Just not very well.
Quote:The fact that many of our politicians come from a private sector background & often go back there after politics should be evident.
It's got nothing at all to do with the skills of the individual.
Gnads wrote on Apr 12
th, 2022 at 6:46am:
freediver wrote on Apr 10
th, 2022 at 8:36pm:
What would have been done differently if it was in the government's hands?
Maintenance of infrastructure assets for one.
But we just had someone pointing out that the NSW government sold off electricity assets because it "couldn't afford" to maintain them.
Gnads wrote on Apr 12
th, 2022 at 6:50am:
freediver wrote on Apr 11
th, 2022 at 9:20am:
Because their management is too heavily influenced by politics. If you look at the workplace culture of state owned enterprises compared to privately owned ones it is always the same thing - unproductive, unmotivated.
A competitive marketplace will deliver the goods cheaper. Ultimately, it is for the same reason why capitalist economies are so much wealthier than the communist ones. Communism gives you an idea of what happens when the government controls all the businesses. So unless there is a sound economic reason - that is, a condition that makes a market failure both inevitable and worse than the alternative of government ownership - democratic governments around the world have been steadily unloading state owned assets.
Which industries do you consider to be a matter of national security?
You complete tosser
You're saying that politics wouldn't be involved when the system is being run by LNP supporting business?
Yes. People tend to run their businesses to make money.
Quote:And for national security reasons we do not require foreign investment in essential public utilities like electricity & water supply.
You think the water supply is a national security issue?
Quote:Because they can afford to ...... & they're elitist snot nosed twerps like you.
Another lie. Most of them struggle to come up with the money.
Quote:Well under the private only model those who cannot pay get no education.
Youa re missing the point DNA.
Quote:And then you find that as often as not the public schools end up leading the education standards results and receive the top grades.
So the parrots keep mindlessly chanting. But where is the evidence?
Quote:It seems frustrating to be asked to explain the obvious, things that you obviously do know yourself.
It isn't determined by the history but the history displayed the position. There are industries that historically have been part of the competitive market most this is because it is where they belong. Things that may even benefit from competition that are not essential services or not of national importance.
So how do you know where they belong?
Quote:It would be just as ludicrous to nationalize yo-yo manufacture as it is to privatise education or power.
And yet you cannot explain why.
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