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  • Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.netOP
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      4 months ago

      Kinda surprised there is no private police force yet because it seems like a great choice for neoliberal privatisation.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          4 months ago

          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.

          saruman-orb One Small “Union” to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

      • 小莱卡
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        4 months ago

        Yes there is, its called private security.