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Sunface Jack's avatar

Private industry is as untrustworthy as government. Both have ambitions to monopolize and both are corrupt and corruptible. Transparency and scrutiny by the people who are taxed is imperative and we see where PPP's or G3P has been corrupted by both colluders in private and Public services.

Neoliberal Progressives are demanding the privatization of everything. Duplication of services does not lead to efficiency, even if the Jesuit doesn't agree.

The fact remains even if it is unpalatable certain services are served by both private and public enterprises. Horses for courses in my opinion. Private an Public markets are not symmetrical another unpalatable fact.

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Rex Barker's avatar

I can imagine the sort of people who will agree with this opinion, but it is severely mistaken as a means to resolve the western material mindset. With modern man it seems that every improvement quickly creates the next limit we must overcome. Not content to drive within the individual limitations of each individual's sensory and intelligent capabilities, we must do everything quicker/better without reference to all other species. We are one of many species of life that inhabit this planet, arguably the most intelligent/advanced, and yet we fail in our responsibilities to this beautiful planet. We drive when we could walk or cycle, we destroy anew rather than re-cycle, we leave toxic materials for some future time when it is 'economic' to properly deal with the issues they create. We are a disgrace to this planet. Contrast this to the indigenous people we have murdered in order to plunder the earths riches. They are and were far more advanced than we currently are, and they too did have their periods of conflict and destruction when the illness of individual desire for more/better gripped them. The earth has carried us through such times without complaint - though it has created events to warn us of our folly. The simple though challenging solution is to become at one with all that is, reject the sense of 'me/I' as a separate individual 'self' and utilise the full extent of our capabilities - ones that we have neglected but can open a deeper more profound connection than we believe is possible.

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