re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter

They just want private companies to take over the mails and charge a fortune.

See, that’s not even the real problem. Privatized services might be more or less expensive than public services.

But public services have a duty of universal access that privatized services don’t. Even when privatized services have an “obligation” to provide the same service they usually find a way to weasel out of it.

Privatization can work, in some special cases. The privatization of French mobile telephony and internet access has been a triumph.

But privatization of real natural monopolies and mostly public service organizations is always a disaster.