• KlavKalashj@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Classic America to be fair: butcher every public service until it’s unusable and then use that politically as a demonstration of how terrible it is and how we should just hand it off to private companies.

    This is happening in Sweden too right now.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      According to Das Kapital it’s an inevitable outcome of any system that rewards the owning class when they present capitalist solutions. Representatives depend on experts to represent, and the owning class will promote and endorse experts trained to justify their interests.

      Ultimately, regulatory departments get captured by the industries they are supposed to corral.