Boushey Square annoys me every summer. This "public" square is leased by a restaurant that only uses it for dinner service and it remains chained off the rest of the day.

Closed to cars and yet still closed to people. May as well stay parking and through way. #Ottawa #Patio #PrivatePublicSpace #Privatized #PublicRealm #PlacesForProfit

"Finding out that the #Nazis #privatized #industry at a time in which such a thing was unheard of until decades later with #neoliberalism has had my brain on fire. I already knew #fascism was #capitalist but this is the most capitalist.

as mussolini himself said #corporatism is more accurate name for fascism.

“No other country in the world would privatize its public works until the Nazis in #Germany did it between 1934 and 1937, a rhetorically useful #factoid if ever you are caught in a discussion with someone claiming that the Nazis were #socialists.” 

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everything-must-go-wimbish

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoricalGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf

https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/nazi-billionaires-businesses-denazification-de-jong-interview/

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/erica-x-eisen-nuremberg/

https://www.tumblr.com/161afa1312acab/714324335299526656?source=share

If the Ukrainian rail system can maintain a full scheduled service under literal bombardment, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask why the UK’s mostly #privatized #rail operators can’t manage to do remotely the same thing under ideal operating conditions. #Trains in the UK are a travesty, and a punitively expensive one at that. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/how-ukraine-railways-keeps-people-and-presidents-moving

@KingShawn that's because the #USA has #ForProfit #privatized #healthcare and doesn't regulate it like an essential #utility #service...

@evangreer But that won't happen because the #privatized #intelligence of the #USA with #NSAbook and the other #GAFAM's require #PostPrivacy #DataCollection.

After all, the #PRISM program wasn't ended - it's up and running to this very day...

So no, #privacy won't be available in the #USA nor to #customers of U.S. corporations thanks to #CloudAct!

If you or I get a rare disease under #privatized #HealthCare, you or I will probably die.

Most of us simply don't have this lady's ability to work a bureaucracy.

I wish you could read this paywalled #WaPo piece about the evil, soulless fuckers at #Aetna.

Nationalize the shit out of these guys.

I try not to let this sort of thing get under my radar, but OOH!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/30/high-priced-drugs-step-insurance-policies/

Big Pharma Says: Price Of Drugs Reflects R&D Cost.. Lying To You (as usual)

Americans Pay *Multiple Fold vs EU For *US* Drugs + #Taxdollars Fund Research + #Pharma Puts Most Profits In Advertising.

Opinion: #Privatized #Healthcare Is Shameful.

#BigPharma #USA #Europe #Singlepayer #Insurance #Greed #ethics #News #tech
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/big-pharma-says-drug-prices-reflect-rd-cost-researchers-call-bs/

> .. a chaotic, polluting and unpleasant system of #privatized urban transport involving a multiplicity of private and #polluting #vehicles on over-congested roads (as is common in many developing countries) typically generates more #GDP than a safe, efficient and affordable system of #PublicTransport that reduces vehicular congestion and provides a more pleasant living and working environment.
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue101/GhoshMorgan101.pdf
/ht @JayatiGhosh
#illth v. #wealth #JayatiGhoch