Cea Weaver

there's a significant chunk of the left that consistently advocates for taking over programs and resources from the government and turning it over to "communities" and i'm always genuinely curious what the difference between that and good ol free market privatization is

Wouldn’t the lack of profit motif that necessitates brutal competition be the difference? But also don’t know who you’re referring to and what those people are referring to when they advocate for “community” control

i guess my point is that i don’t agree with the argument that community control works differently in different communities. a public good always is a public one, a private good is always a private one susceptible to the whims of the market, even if it’s people you like in charge

and i think privatizing things, with the goal of giving more control over to marginalized groups, actually can have a lot of shitty effects toward those same groups. thinking a lot about the book the long crisis and how different radicals cheered nyc munipical austerity

Why do these programs need to be privatized? I think the lack of trust in politicians is warranted. I think giving community a final say in how these public systems are run isn’t bad.