Public companies like water services aren’t trying to charge you as much as possible.
Private companies like ISPs are trying to charge you as much as possible.
Why would you want public companies taken private?
Greed. I remember Thatcher selling off public utilities. If you had money you could buy into the IPO and make absolute bank in the short term. If you didn’t have any spare cash, fuck you for being poor, and the wealth gap increases.
In the long term, those that got paid by buying shares in these new companies got shafted along with every one else as prices increased, quality of services declined and enshittification set in.
The problem is the nature of such companies. Some companies can easily be replicated and have plenty competition. However, states usually own infrastructure which can’t just be built three times by different companies to compete. So someone ends up simply having a regional monopoly and jacking up prices.
Now. I will not deny that it appears like radical reform is needed, spending must be cut, and state companies are always expensive affairs. I’ve just done a quick search on Wikipedia for big Argentinian companies, and the state owns several banks and airlines. Clearly some of those could be privatised, as financial services and airlines more easily can compete than for example water utilities or power grid operators.
The whole dolarisation of the economy is hardly sound even if it tries to circumvent the existence of weak institutions in Argentina by transferring trust to the Fed, although the lack of control over their currency means that they’re at the whim of US monetary policy
Not a bad idea if the government would intervene whenever needed. But I doubt Argentina’s government will intervene.
Public companies like water services aren’t trying to charge you as much as possible. Private companies like ISPs are trying to charge you as much as possible.
Why would you want public companies taken private?
Greed. I remember Thatcher selling off public utilities. If you had money you could buy into the IPO and make absolute bank in the short term. If you didn’t have any spare cash, fuck you for being poor, and the wealth gap increases.
In the long term, those that got paid by buying shares in these new companies got shafted along with every one else as prices increased, quality of services declined and enshittification set in.
If English trains after being privatized aren’t enough of a warning, I don’t know what is.
That and the rivers and coasts being so full of shit you can’t swim in them any more without getting sick.
Oh, old people dying because they can’t afford to heat their homes in winter too.
I don’t understand why Tory MP’s heads aren’t in spikes outside Parliament as a warning to others.
The problem is the nature of such companies. Some companies can easily be replicated and have plenty competition. However, states usually own infrastructure which can’t just be built three times by different companies to compete. So someone ends up simply having a regional monopoly and jacking up prices.
Now. I will not deny that it appears like radical reform is needed, spending must be cut, and state companies are always expensive affairs. I’ve just done a quick search on Wikipedia for big Argentinian companies, and the state owns several banks and airlines. Clearly some of those could be privatised, as financial services and airlines more easily can compete than for example water utilities or power grid operators.
The whole dolarisation of the economy is hardly sound even if it tries to circumvent the existence of weak institutions in Argentina by transferring trust to the Fed, although the lack of control over their currency means that they’re at the whim of US monetary policy