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

But a private police force is fucking retarded

Because they might have incentives to convict people without cause

Naa, that would mean they get paid or rewarded for # of arrests where I think private police would only survive if they prevented crime also

There's certain industries that just function better if inefficient

Law enforcement is one of those

I'd prefer a lazy deadbeat cop that ignores crime to one that actively plants evidence to hit his quota

police dont stop crimes from happening, just appear afterwards. Im sure someone linked here a private police VICE in a mexican town, and ive seen one in detroit too which has been successful

I mean how the fuck do you prove evidence was planted

it's literally impossible

All a cop has to do is bring a bag of drugs and say he found it in your car

When you add things that private industry would do, or even what some public forces do, like quotas, it becomes really fucked up

Same thing for prosecutors in the USA

they get elected based on how harsh they are