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1. Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 04:33:09 JST Kermode

   • MMR Nmd

   How to steal public services the old fashioned way...

   I saw a great little poster early this morning from @MMRnmd ,so I boosted it, but the people I know in real life (like my friend and boss) can't read french. Also, I'm really tired of trying to get across how this works with him! I don't need to convince people like you lot who either do read french and/or know how this works already. Really, I loved the imagery of the dominoes, because the steps taken are always the same in my experience, both where I have lived and looking out at the world. Here are the original and then my effort. I did vary the text a bit in english, even between when I made my notes and when I made (ahem) plagiarized the graphic.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 19:21:34 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • MMR Nmd
     • Madies Scythian
     @madies @gemlog @MMRnmd at least a private company needs to be able to generate a profit to stay afloat. Government can just increase the budget and pump unlimited money into poorly designed systems with near 0 risk. If it fails it's because people didn't pay enough.
   • Madies Scythian (madies@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 19:21:36 JST Madies Scythian

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     • MMR Nmd

     @gemlog @MMRnmd Because adding an extra layer of managers and a set of investors for skimming off profits, has always made a public service function better.

     I sometimes wonder how obtuse you have to vote for the people advocating privatisation.

   • Xavier Bertels (xavez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 19:25:11 JST Xavier Bertels

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     • MMR Nmd

     @gemlog @MMRnmd thanks for the translation!

     I don’t really like that graphic tho, it paints a picture that is too black-and-white. For years, the budgets of *some* public services have only increased. And the quality has gone down. This is precisely the source of many of these tensions.

     An alternative graphic would be one where the first domino is “Increase of public funds” and so on and so on. It wouldn't apply to every situation, but it would explain the other point of view.

     Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: likes this.