#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"
"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."
@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.
#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods
Trying to share a post from Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/left-foot-forward.bsky.social/post/3mjkc3tqhbk2v
Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy https://leftfootforward.org/2023/11/exclusive-poll-shows-huge-support-for-nationalisation-of-key-industries-and-utilities/
How Privatization Has Broken U.S. Healthcare and High-Speed Rail—and Who Pays the Price
Two 60 Minutes reports expose a deeper truth: privatization is draining U.S. healthcare and infrastructure, leaving Americans to pay more for less while corporations profit.
#corporateGreed #EconomicJustice #healthcareCrisis #healthcareReform #highSpeedRail #Inequality #infrastructureFailure #privatization #publicGoods https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oPg
Naomi Klein: "One of the things that we can learn from Zohran #Mamdani is.. he moonlights as a #history #professor.. actually educating people about radical history, because we don’t learn it in school.. people in Canada generally don’t know the history of #public ownership,”
And "we perform best when we actually have to fight for our ideas."
#publicschools #publichealth #publictransportation
Capital chased engagement. Communities got precarity. We can rewire incentives to finance public goods as reliably as we finance platforms. Blueprint inside.
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-misallocation-civilization
Heavenkey ha ufficialmente fatto domanda per l’Ethereum Security QF Round su Giveth.
Stiamo costruendo un’infrastruttura di sicurezza non-custodial per la continuità degli asset digitali su Ethereum: eredi privacy-preserving, claim sequenziali e fallback etico per ridurre la perdita permanente di fondi.
Pagina ufficiale Giveth: https://giveth.io/project/heavenkey-digital-will-automation-ethical-fallback
#Ethereum #EthereumSecurity #Giveth #PublicGoods #WalletSafety #Heavenkey
Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers
https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/
> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.
Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.
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