The average democratically elected politician killed more people if they were in a war then Pinochet... it's actually kind funny

Pinochet's policies left a ton of people poor. 45% of people were pushed into poverty under Pinochet.

Just because Allende was worse does not make Pinochet good.

And weren't there two recessions under Pinochet?

Well of course he wasn’t good, that’s morale, was he beneficial, yes

I mean a lot of those people were poor before allende you can't expect a politician to fix every problem

He was in power for around a decade and a half

Peron wasn't perfect, but he was far better for Argentina than Pinochet was for Chile

@everyone Daily Question 🔖

Should all industry be privatized? If yes, why? If no, what kinds of industry should not?

no industry should be privatized

everything should be public

yes, competition drives down prices and encourages innovation

there should be no industry

especially prostitution@PebbЛe

prostitution is not an industry

no industry?

wtf

Things like prisons should not be privatized, for example.

true

i don't think of that as an industry

Privatize the police, if you privatize it it will become more efficient with money. Look at american EMS for an example!

even though it is

we should go back to subsitance farming and raiding

An interesting case of privatization being an issue is the merchant marine. As of right now were the USA to enter a prolonged war again the size of Iraq/Afghanistan our merchant marine is no longer large enough to supply such an effort. The US Gov has been looking into subsidizing the merchant marine to avoid this disaster.

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@21tagtmeiern Privatized prisons are a thing, though

if you privatize the police you give up on egalitarian justice

same with prisons

yea like that exists in america

Basically a private merchant marine means the USA is neutered

it never did

it should tho

and things can definitely get worse on that front

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Privatizing certain industries creates fucked up incentives

But so do public industries

for instance a private prison system would be reliant on convictions to continue it's existence...

But prison guard unions in the USA already support harsher drug penalties

We can't stop the drug war because it would mean millions of unemployed law enforcement psychos

Tbh everyone is going to look out for own self interests and will act accordingly, only difference with a public industry is that they have a monopoly on power and thus taxation and can force people to use their services and make private competition illegal.

Yeah in general privatizing is the way to go