• iopq@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    The government, running a service that doesn’t suck? Call me when it happens

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        1 hour ago

        What is the search engine your government hosts? Or maybe they do email? Do tell

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        12 hours ago

        List a country with a decent population of like at least 50 mio people that competes with companies successfully and fairly. Countries with a smaller population don’t have as much of a bureaucratic overhead. But even there… where do they offer a better service in a fair competition with companies

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          11 hours ago

          You are posting on a social media platform solely funded by the EU.

          But I’ve heard the USPS is not shit either. Publicly funded and run universities in the EU also provide the same or better service as those in the US for pennies on the dollar. Also, a lot of European railways are state run, like a lot of other public transit companies.

          Also, the only space agencies that ever got to the moon were public. So were the ones that put the first man in space, and the first man on the moon, and the one that sent the first satellite into orbit and the farthest man-made object from Earth.

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          3 hours ago

          Google neither competes fairly nor provides a good service. We have to endure them because they have made investment in a competitor uneconomical.

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          9 hours ago

          Hydroquebec, alternative power practically doesn’t exist in quebev because hydroquebec kicks ass

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            I don’t think anyone could legally compete with hydro not that they could because we invested as a society into exploiting pur natural ressources for the common good of our population rather than the good of some dickhead.

            Result: cheapest electricity price on the continent.

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          8 hours ago

          I would argue that “bureaucratic overhead” is missing in companies at least as much as it is excess in governments. These double checks and regulations help guard against things like companies externalizing environmental and health impacts. They also act as a check on tendencies towards consolidation (or rather should). Consequently, companies appear to operate more efficiently, but we will have to pay to clean up and handle their externalities eventually.

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      18 hours ago

      You have become normalized to a country that allows a convicted felon to be president

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        1 hour ago

        I’ve been to half a dozen countries after COVID.

        That included a 16 hour stay in a Canadian hospital because they just don’t have enough doctors to get around to you if you’re not dying