• SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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    4 个月前

    Ohh, just wait till they privatize weather, mail, prison. hospitals…

    It’s gonna be too expensive to live on this planet for YOU.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      4 个月前

      Two of those are literally already privatised in America, and one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.

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        one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.

        One? Last I checked, both weather and mail are both on their way to privatization.

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          Damn, mail too? That didn’t make international headlines the way shutting down the weather service did.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        Most prisons in the US are actually not privatized, although this is a bit of technicality as government-run prisons tend to have privatized a lot of their functions, like “catering” (lol) and guards etc.

      • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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        As rural hospitals shut down (due to lack of federal funding) they are being BOUGHT up by private corporations and LEASED back to the federal government (federal funding).

        It’s a LOT more money and it’s NOT going to the hospital.