this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as the product is owned by the government it works. You can pay a contractor to build it, maybe even manage it, but you can't give the infrastructure to the private company that then has a monopoly

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Exactly.

Public money spent = public owns the end result

Should be exactly this simple.