Nearly all government services other than the cops and firefighters are farmed out to 3rd parties. Usually there’s a “waste management” company that signs a contract with a municipality to provide garbage services instead of the city just owning trucks. Neoliberalism bay-beee!!!
Water is a bit more complicated, like other utilities it’s usually some sort of complex private/public partnership.
Kinda surprised there is no private police force yet because it seems like a great choice for neoliberal privatisation.
Kinda surprised there is no private police force yet because it seems like a great choice for neoliberal privatisation.
because cops have the strongest unions. they're the only work force (I know, cops aren't "workers" but you get what I mean) in the country that is universally unionized and armed. and since their job is to serve reactionary ends, and oppress the rest of the workers, the capitalists permit this.
https://www.adt.co.uk/monitoring-plans/private-security-response
That's where Private Security Response comes in. As well as alerting you to an alarm, we immediately deploy a security guard to your home to investigate. There are two types of cover: external check and keyholder
It's because police have strong "unions"
Unions work even for evil assholes.
Because these entities are never in solidarity with actual labor unions (the opposite in fact), it has been suggested that the 'police unions' should actually be understood as professional associations, a more fittingly exclusive organization form.
One Small "Union" to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
I don't know what the anglos are smoking
Neoliberalism Kush
Not the whole island. Scotland's water is entirely publicly owned (and great).
and with all of that, the thames hasnt been as clean as it is now in like 500 years :D aint neoliberal deindustrialization great? :D
Not only is it expensive, but now pretty much every water source is now contaminated with shite and waste.
In fact, in the case of Thames Water, it's been such a failure that it's tainted the entire image of privatisation, to the extent that even under the desperate Tories, plans have emerged to re-nationalise it and fuck over all the scumbag investors.
Neo-liberalism demands it. Anything state owned or funded needs to be handed to capital so they may rent seek.
Yes.
Not just water but also power and they can charge whatever rates they want.
Oh, a 500 dollar spike? Better pay up or you're getting an eviction notice.
Yes, unless you have a private well and a spectic system. Even with the septic system tho, you need to hire a company to pump it out for you every couple years.
the capitalists are eroding the state which is their only impediment to unrestricted profit seeking and rent seeking. The irony being that the liberal bourgeois state is the only thing that checks the long term interests of the capitalist class, and the stability of the capitalist system as a whole, against the short term rapacious greed of particular capitalists and institutions.
Well duh, how are you gonna have a public service without finding some random rich guy you can hand a bunch of money?
uhhh no it isn't. 80% of the population is served by public water utilities, by the count here i can't vouch for where they put PPPs on that chart, which are indeed stupid bullshit. but major cities generally have public water systems
part. Haggisland's water is purely public and free-at-use.