Re:Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
by ModernMech on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:31AM
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By making sure there no water fountains on the train platforms, yet plenty of kiosks and vending machines that sell water.
I was just at EWR last night waiting for an arrival and there was an old man looking for water. He asks an employee where to find some and she looks at him like he has two heads.
“You have to buy some. Or you can drink out of the faucet in the restroom”
Can you imagine that? Telling an old man at 1am he has to drink out of a bathroom fixture to quench his thirst. But that’s the system we’ve built for ourselves. In a better present, the man would have access to a drink for free. But because a profit needs to be made, the entire airport is organized around little nickel and dime scams.
Re:Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
by drsnow on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:42AM
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This is the way the world works now and anyone who disputes the justification of it just gets neatly added to the pile of "complaints" burned by elites for warmth.
I was just at EWR last night waiting for an arrival and there was an old man looking for water. He asks an employee where to find some and she looks at him like he has two heads.
“You have to buy some. Or you can drink out of the faucet in the restroom”
Can you imagine that? Telling an old man at 1am he has to drink out of a bathroom fixture to quench his thirst. But that’s the system we’ve built for ourselves. In a better present, the man would have access to a drink for free. But because a profit needs to be made, the entire airport is organized around little nickel and dime scams.