Sounds like a good reason radically restructure (if not entirely dismantle) those companies.
We should make medicine to treat sick people.
We should build houses to shelter the unhoused.
We should grow food to feed the hungry.
The fact that most companies currently responsible for food and housing and medicine are primarily motivated by shareholder value instead of effective community service represents a structural conflict of interest.
Yep and many times it does NOT work. In the UK Margaret Thatcher pushed heavily into neoliberalism and the current gov is still pushing it and it’s led to public transport not being reliable (not punctual and expensive) rivers being filled with shit because the water companies are not keeping rivers clean, people being denied welfare support because the task of assessing it has been moved to private firms who give bonuses for failing people.
Sounds like a good reason radically restructure (if not entirely dismantle) those companies.
We should make medicine to treat sick people. We should build houses to shelter the unhoused. We should grow food to feed the hungry.
The fact that most companies currently responsible for food and housing and medicine are primarily motivated by shareholder value instead of effective community service represents a structural conflict of interest.
This. Isn’t that neoliberalism? We outsource everything to companies in the name of efficiency?
Yep and many times it does NOT work. In the UK Margaret Thatcher pushed heavily into neoliberalism and the current gov is still pushing it and it’s led to public transport not being reliable (not punctual and expensive) rivers being filled with shit because the water companies are not keeping rivers clean, people being denied welfare support because the task of assessing it has been moved to private firms who give bonuses for failing people.