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"She told the children, 'Everyone spit on [boy's name]' … and he was screaming. And the children did hit him … there was, like, more or less 20 children sitting there and they all, like, got up onto the knees and they smacked him," Johanna recalls.
Beyond gross. It’s fucked up that privatisation on this scale can still be considered acceptable when it begets shit like this.
Even under our current capitalist model, I think there are practically no benefits for privatisation of necessities. (Management of each being equal, that is. People pointing to "government inefficiency" are naive to think there aren't just as many private orgs who run very inefficiently.)
What's the point of having energy transmission private? I can't well plug in a different network. I'm stuck with one, and then have to do a stupid dance with the retailers who "compete".
What's the point of having the airport be privately owned? It's not like we have much of a choice of which airport to fly out of.
What's the point of paying private schools with government money? That's just money that could have been spent on public schools.
All of which we have to pay cost + profit. Instead of just cost.
The list goes on.
Privatisation is stupid.