The Italian government proposed privatizing water, against voters’ will
https://global.ilmanifesto.it/the-italian-government-proposed-privatizing-water-against-voters-will
by Pilast
The Italian government proposed privatizing water, against voters’ will
https://global.ilmanifesto.it/the-italian-government-proposed-privatizing-water-against-voters-will
by Pilast
28 comments
I can’t see this going horribly wrong for anyone! Great idea! *insert sarcasm*
Take a look at the very successful privatizations carried out in the UK … and, where things are at now ….
It’s been an unmitigated disaster in England. But then you see, on the one hand a small group of already wealthy people get the opportunity to make even more money, and on the other hand, the rest of us can get screwed
Far right who pretends that they are “for everyday people” and privatization, name a more iconic duo
Hell! What do you think, what you get with a fascist government? Paradise for small people?
Every right wing government, and I mean every, fucked over the majority of their citizens.
Because if right wingers talk about „us“, they seldom mean you. Only their wealthy buddies are in their group, the normal citizens are just prey.
Like australia did?.
“Hey, what if we tried becoming a banana republic?”
Of course they want to. Typical right wing
Nestl’Italia
Free Market fetishists do free market fetish things, more news at 5
Uk here – no no no big mistake. There are no regional competitors, so the companies do what they want.
Capitalism does not work for goods and services you cannot choose to go without or choose between. It just becomes extraction – water, power, education, health, defense.
It can supply these things, but cannot be these things
Dont do it, it will be a disaster like in Britain!
Tell them to look at the shitahow water charges became in Ireland. Pretty much toppled a government
So Meloni is a Thatcher like figure? Can she stop Russia then please?
Ahm, don’t, unless you literally like swimming in shit. Regards, someone from the UK.
HOW a naturally monopolistic basic resource like water could even be proposed to be privatised? What’s the fucking point of doing it?
A private company will by definition make it more expensive. Even under the circumstances where it’s magically done very efficiently, whatever the fuck that means, it would still COST to the taxpayers MORE money because a private company is by definition more inefficient (layers, more stakeholders and for-profit) than a state run monopolistic enterprise.
Te hell?
Privatization is done when it is believed that the free market will do a better job of providing the privatized element. The question is, how is the free market supposed to do a better job where is natural monopoly or a series of monopolies? There is no possibility of competition in the case of water, because no one will create alternative water supply systems and water intake sources.
If I were Italian, I would take to the streets and abolish the government and those in office who propose such a stupid thing.
nestle is pushing hard.
And then the entire Nestle board simultaneously came in their pants…
Privatising water and health should be a crime against humanity.
If you need more proof that right wing politicians give literally no fucks about their county and only thinks about stealing as much as possible: Berlusconi already tried this move in 2011 and Italy had a referendum on the topic. More than NINETY-FIVE percent of the voters voted against privatization of water and yet in the following years they found workarounds to still profit from public water in some form… and now they’re at it again.
Don’t do it Italy. My water company said it needed a 60% rise in bills to stay solvent after spending the last decades dumping raw sewage into seas and rivers and not investing in infrastructure so we have water shortages every summer. We’re benefitting soo much from our freedom to choose from one regional monopoly in each region in England!
Ok, so what you wanna do is to look at what the UK and Thatcher did, and then do the complete opposite.
Private water in the UK has been and still is by far the biggest lie ever told.
All we got from it is polluted rivers, lack of investment in current infrastructure, while the shareholders who are mostly pension funds outside the UK keep getting more and more money, leading to things like Thames Water facing collapse because of its huge dept.
I remember a Carl Barks comic in which Donald Duck become a despotic king and decide to create a tax on air, we aren’t that far away from this gag
Another gloriuos battle for the prosperity of Italy guided by our fascist Meloni! Wow I’m so proud to be young and being under political hostage by the majority of old ppl /s
😔😔😔
Learn from our mistakes in the uk – do *not* privatise utilities
I mean… You vote in the far right and you get far right thigns. Why are people surprised?
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