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#privatisation

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Estelle Platini

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

braveneweurope.com/aurelien-th

Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
#civilService#statehood#bureaucracy
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Toni Aittoniemi

Ms. Dasia Sade

The privatisation of everything. Or, what if democracy was a subscription service?

Privatisation slashes wages and harms services. You end up getting less while paying more.

Running the government like a business IS what's going on. The business model is the problem.

"Efficiency" is code for power-grab.

youtube.com/watch?v=VEtEvnhziP
#privatisation #publicgoods

YouTubeThe Privatization Of Everything | how America sold itself outBy Dasia Sade
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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

This article doesn’t discuss the issue of privatization of these jobs. There is a mention of fired workers seeking jobs among subcontractors they used to supervise. However there is no analysis of the siphoning of funds to private capitalists, nor authority to them. These private entities may pay former government workers at higher rates, but they would bill more to add profits to their grift.
#privatisation #DOGEscam #subcontractor
nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/poli

Elon Musk has said without providing details that the Department of Government Efficiency is likely to save taxpayers $150 billion.
The New York Times · Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New CostsBy Elizabeth Williamson
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Kate :verigold:

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the UK government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take-tr 📝 #Petition #Privatisation

We Own ItPetition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own ItThe government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
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