@elrohir @aral Speaking as someone in a country where privatisation of the water has led to the water companies investing absolutely nothing in fixing the infrastructure, pumping sewage into rivers on such a scale that cocaine can be detected in the water, taking loans to finance dividends to shareholders and wanting to raise prices by 40% for that, I find those sorts of claims about the free market being more efficient utterly ridiculous
@matthewbdaly @aral @elrohir it’s way more efficient at the thing it’s trying to do.
Regrettably that isn’t delivering safe water and sewage services to residents - it’s extracting profit