18 May

‘The private sector is more efficient’ is one of those myths that is believed only because it gets repeated so often. Have a look at how much MORE it costs to bring in the private sector (dark blue) to do the same work. The private sector is currently also running the housing market, where most young people can’t afford to own a home, the groceries business, where prices have doubled in many areas, and the energy system, where people can’t heat because then they can’t eat. And caused both the Great Depression and the GFC in 2008. You have to be some sort of stupid to think this isn’t inevitable when you replace a service model with a for-profit model, which is all the ‘private sector’ is.