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Queensland’s premier wants publicly owned petrol stations – is that a good idea?
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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Name one thing that's been privatised that has resulted in any combination of better product, better service, or better price?
Your comment couldn't have been clearer, but 3 out of the 4 replies to it seem to have interpreted it to mean exactly the opposite of what it says.
Either that, or those three comments are incredibly fucking dumb and their idea of "better product" is "more money for corporations".
have you seen how much cheaper 1kg on a falcon 9 is compared to the sls
Yes, your comment was the one out of four that wasn’t stupid.
my bad i only saw 3
Ah yeah, your instance is defederated from Beehaw, which is where one of the three errors came from. (They said "water/sewer systems".)
oh right, I forgot beehaw defederated from world and shit because of mass signups
that was so long ago, do you know how beehaw is doing?
I couldn't tell you how they're doing with much confidence, but their communities all seem pretty good to me.
Commonwealth Bank:
Telstra:
Wait nevermind
Telecom wasn't exactly a shining example of a government run service though.
Side note: Bring back the CES , privatised job search is an absolute fucking disaster.
anything that benefits from/has potential for innovation really (things like launch vehicles), but public services and fully optimised industries whose only method of "improving efficiency" is enshittification should be owned by the people
Water/sewer systems
rapid transit. chicagos el system the various lines were all independently owned but now they are part of one system with free transfers between them and even bus and train.
Hospitals.
Better service for very rich ppl. No service or unaffordable for rest.
Better product, and better service. Not better on the price, but it was asked for one out of three.