• iopq@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The government, running a service that doesn’t suck? Call me when it happens

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      6 months ago

      You have become normalized to a country that allows a convicted felon to be president

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        As well as a political party that actively tries to make public services shitty so people won’t miss it when it’s dismantled.

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        6 months ago

        List a country with a decent population of like at least 50 mio people that competes with companies successfully and fairly. Countries with a smaller population don’t have as much of a bureaucratic overhead. But even there… where do they offer a better service in a fair competition with companies

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          6 months ago

          Google neither competes fairly nor provides a good service. We have to endure them because they have made investment in a competitor uneconomical.

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          6 months ago

          I would argue that “bureaucratic overhead” is missing in companies at least as much as it is excess in governments. These double checks and regulations help guard against things like companies externalizing environmental and health impacts. They also act as a check on tendencies towards consolidation (or rather should). Consequently, companies appear to operate more efficiently, but we will have to pay to clean up and handle their externalities eventually.