49 Comments
⭠ Return to thread

That is one of the many purposes of this exercise. Problem > reaction > solution. Take, for example, the post office. It was the only branch of the government which didn't cost the taxpayer anything. They worked well and had billion$ in reserve. Privatizing it would be a real prize, even without the $B. One of the many ways it's been sabotaged over the years was the unusual requirement to fund all employee pensions in their entirety for many years in advance. Suddenly a surplus turns into a deficit, and they appear to the casual observer to be too dysfunctional to justify.

Social Security, the education system, the DOT, etc. all will eventually fall to privatization, so long as nobody takes a very close look at what is actually happening.

Then again, loosing our purpose-designed public indoctrination system would not be so tragic, were the alternative actually better.

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-revolution-begins-here-and-now

Expand full comment