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What is the most deceptive thing that you’ve experienced? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 23 hours ago by zachimusprime44 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Many "government" entities in the US are private for-profit companies: Postal Service, vehicle licensing, electric companies, water companies, which control the very infrastructure of everyday life.

Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

The USPS is not a private for-profit company, despite the Republican party’s efforts to make it so for decades. It used to not even be for-profit, until the Republican party passed legislation to forcing it to be run in the black. Actually it’s still not for-profit; it just has to break even.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

That's about to change sooner or later with the circus we have in now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe not by definition, but in terms of operations, yes. If it wasn't operated like a private company, it wouldn't need a union.

And guess what union is probably the largest in the US?

National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

If it wasn’t operated like a private company, it wouldn’t need a union.

Why wouldn’t it? Public ownership doesn’t magically guarantee better treatment than private. Guess what is actually the largest union in the US, at over ten times larger than the NALC? The National Education Association (NEA) of public school teachers.

[–] breadsmasher 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

the DMV is a private profit corporation? huh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

The DMV isn't federal, it's at the state level. Some states have private licensing companies.