• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    Regardless of who would do better, the entirety of SpaceX and Starlink were paid for using American taxpayer’s money and government contracts. We already paid for it, we should own it.

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      Ohh, just wait till they privatize weather, mail, prison. hospitals…

      It’s gonna be too expensive to live on this planet for YOU.

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        Two of those are literally already privatised in America, and one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.

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          one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.

          One? Last I checked, both weather and mail are both on their way to privatization.

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            Damn, mail too? That didn’t make international headlines the way shutting down the weather service did.

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          As rural hospitals shut down (due to lack of federal funding) they are being BOUGHT up by private corporations and LEASED back to the federal government (federal funding).

          It’s a LOT more money and it’s NOT going to the hospital.

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          Most prisons in the US are actually not privatized, although this is a bit of technicality as government-run prisons tend to have privatized a lot of their functions, like “catering” (lol) and guards etc.