• tomi000@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The same as private universities, private health care, private banks, private (as in capitalism-driven) politics. Some of which are way worse on a national scale than private prisons imo.

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      3 days ago

      Private banks should mean they can fail without the government stepping in.

      Beyond the services of a basic checking account and ability to send money, banking should be private.

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      Again, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

      As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.