Julian Sanchez on 22 Dec 2000 23:06:35 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Privatisation of Government Services |
> As well, the government of the Province of Ontario has been on a > track of *neo-liberal* privatisation for several years - wouldn't the > *Walkerton Tragedy* (as it's been called) be a result of the > weakening of the role of government in these critical social welfare > issues? It seems to me, in this case, if the government were playing > a stronger role it would be in its place to negate the effects of > such *enlightened self interest*. What enlightened self-interest? Poisoning your customers is not in anybody's self-interest, enlightened or otherwise. Again, it looks like this one guy conned his bosses (and, indeed, himself) into believing everything was OK; why wouldn't he have conned his gov't bosses if the utility were purely public? -js _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold