• DickFiasco@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Right? When did we start becoming concerned with a public service being "profitable"? I've heard this applied to the US Postal Service a lot recently.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yet nobody ever expects the road system to turn a profit. Why should trains be any different?

    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I first remember it becoming an issue when a failed businessman turned president wanted to run the country like one of his failed businesses.

    • spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You want to put pressure on these things to make them more cost effecient. You're in a capitalist system which does that job very well. But since this is not really a replaceable company, the government has to own these companies until they go public.