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Re:Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain by markus_zhang on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:08AM (#36678779)
Privatization of public sector has nothing to do with free market. Free market has been dead since the 19th century.
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Re:Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:20AM (#36678887)
Is that roughly when we could freely trade humans and every bank could mint their own currency?
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Re:Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain by pydry on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:14AM (#36678833)
In the 19th century the cult of the free market was used to justify exporting all of Ireland's food while the Irish starved to death. The cult has only grown in influence since then.
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