Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by exdaedalus on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:25AM
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> without oversight
Your examples are "with oversight" via environmental regulations and quality regulations.
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by mseebach on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:04AM
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That's a goalpost on wheels. Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that the GP offered than even under the same regulations, public facilities perform significantly worse than private ones.
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by tdb7893 on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:38AM
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When privatization works it is good but it doesn't always work. The current cable industry seems to be just exploiting a monopoly so I think "privatization" has already failed here
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by twoodfin on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:56AM
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So your cable broadband service has been stagnant for a decade? Mine has gotten about 10x faster for roughly the same cost.
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by tdb7893 on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:23AM
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I only have 1 possible cable provider and it's pretty expensive and their service is terrible. It's gotten better in they last 10 years but that doesn't mean that it is a competitive market.
EDIT: Maybe it's changed but when I checked last they had low customer satisfaction but really high profits, which is bad for consumers and (I'm not an expert here so take with a grain of salt) would be really unlikely if the market was competitive at all
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by briandear on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:34AM
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Is anyone actually advocating an abolishment of laws? No privatization advocate is suggesting no laws at all.
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by stctgion on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:07AM
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How about the air you are breathing? Would that be better quality if you paid per breath? What about the people who can't afford to pay to use the roads?
Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by pikzen on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:31AM
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Dear Brian, you're currently living in France and you're spewing that crap? Have you not noticed the ever decreasing quality of our highways which were sold to private entities, our hospitals getting worse and worse as the governement incentivizes the creation of private clinics which offer worse service, the privatization of France Télécom into what is currently Orange, the privatization of the SNCF, of EDF, GDF Suez, and every single public service?
If you haven't been here long enough to notice that, since it's been a process done over the last thirty to fourty years, let me spell it out:
Privatized public services offer a worse service and are a danger to society.
We'd have higher quality, lower cost water and roads.
"Government agencies less likely than private to comply with environmental regulations, study finds" Here are key points from the article linked below:
For power plants and hospitals, public facilities were on average 9 percent more likely to be out of compliance with Clean Air Act regulations and 20 percent more likely to have committed high-priority violations.
For water utilities, public facilities had on average 14 percent more Safe Drinking Water Act health violations and were 29 percent more likely to commit monitoring violations.
Public power plants and hospitals that violated the Clean Air Act were 1 percent less likely than private-sector violators to receive a punitive sanction and 20 percent less likely to be fined.
Public water utilities that violated Safe Drinking Water Act standards were 3 percent less likely than investor-owned utilities to receive formal enforcement actions.
http://archive.news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2015/10/when-gov....
Here's another viewpoint on the benefit of road privatisation: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2012/03/22/road-pri....
As far as "imagining" what it would be like with private water and roads -- instead of imagining, perhaps we ought to look at the topic rationally.
Here's another (opinion) article about privatized roads:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/05/a_glimpse_of....
https://fee.org/articles/privatize-public-highways/
And here's an academic study about water privatization benefits in Argentina: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=648048