FlorianSimon

Not everything has to be soaked in fat. Plain potatoes in a sauce, like in Japanese curry for instance, are pretty good.

Same experience

Nuclear potatoes 😋

The thread was about services (like fire stations, police stations and the likes), so I think it’s relevant to mention that markets are very often ill-suited to provide the best services you can get (and they’re often more expensive than public options, too).

There’s a fundamental difference between most private entities and public entities: the profit motive, which is the reason why private companies’ interests are misaligned with the interests of the people they’re meant to serve in a lot of cases.

The search for profit is the source of a lot of waste of resources that would be better used providing actual services (eg. Marketing for a fire station makes zero sense).

Of course, this applies to entities that provide services and not those that build your phones.

You merely stating things doesn’t make them right. But keep believin’ I suppose. You got plenty of rational arguments yesterday, too bad you weren’t able to respond to them 🤷‍♀️

This, sir, was probably a joke.

You chose the worst example to illustrate this. The left aligned and agreed on an ambitious list of reforms in record time, and they beat the far-right because of it. The biggest party in the leftist coalition withdrew a lot of candidates to keep the far-right out of power, and succeeded.

A left-wing alliance with Macron is impossible. If the left is supposed to do politics like right-wingers, what is even the point?

You can’t be sure of that. Some companies have monopolies on certain goods/services.

One thing you can be assured of is that it would be way more expensive, and probably shittier, as is the case with that kind of privatized services.