one has to be careful not to privatize those services that are an absolute necessity for any person's pursuit of livelihood and success.
if a system calls for a continuum of sorts, as well as an essential need, then it becomes a dangerous proposition to surrender it to privatization, ------------------------- Then I guess we better turn all production and distribution of food and shelter and clothing over to government. ------------------------- If water were to be privatized, we'd all be thirsty as hell. Unless we want to pay the private owner who is making a pile of money on this privatized essential need that nobody can live without. ------------------------- Water IS privatized. In fact, the only reason the private owner IS getting rich selling one of the most abundant natural resources is because government-supplied water is typically of such lousy quality. Every day millions choose to buy bottled drinking water rather than drink the dank stuff that comes from their faucets. And considering that the government-supplied water is typically high in unhealthy and nasty-tasting things like TDSs and chlorine and bone-rotting fluoride, it is over-priced. Speaking of "going thirsty"... the success of bottled water and soft drinks is proof that people would rather go thirsty than drink city water. -------------------------
