• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Refuses, or is forced?

    A thing we see over here in America sometimes is the same group, or even the same man, having control over both public and private options of a given service. The public option is stripped of funding and only operates at minimum wage, while the private option has 5x the funding and hires industry experts. This then easily paves the way for “the public option is trash and doesn’t work, we need to privatize this entire industry”. Suddenly your post office is owned by an individual and you’re paying a weekly post subscription.

    Be very, very cautious and suspicious of private options attempting to supplant public ones. It’s a key tactic that our homegrown American fascists like to use and it’s upsettingly effective on the general public.