Nearly all government services other than the cops and firefighters are farmed out to 3rd parties. Usually there’s a “waste management” company that signs a contract with a municipality to provide garbage services instead of the city just owning trucks. Neoliberalism bay-beee!!!
Water is a bit more complicated, like other utilities it’s usually some sort of complex private/public partnership.
Kinda surprised there is no private police force yet because it seems like a great choice for neoliberal privatisation.
because cops have the strongest unions. they're the only work force (I know, cops aren't "workers" but you get what I mean) in the country that is universally unionized and armed. and since their job is to serve reactionary ends, and oppress the rest of the workers, the capitalists permit this.
That's where Private Security Response comes in. As well as alerting you to an alarm, we immediately deploy a security guard to your home to investigate. There are two types of cover: external check and keyholder
Anglo island has it too (and it's working out so brilliantly for them, just google thames water). I don't know what the anglos are smoking but it's probably what kamala's on 100% of the time
Not only is it expensive, but now pretty much every water source is now contaminated with shite and waste.
In fact, in the case of Thames Water, it's been such a failure that it's tainted the entire image of privatisation, to the extent that even under the desperate Tories, plans have emerged to re-nationalise it and fuck over all the scumbag investors.
Yes, unless you have a private well and a spectic system. Even with the septic system tho, you need to hire a company to pump it out for you every couple years.
the capitalists are eroding the state which is their only impediment to unrestricted profit seeking and rent seeking. The irony being that the liberal bourgeois state is the only thing that checks the long term interests of the capitalist class, and the stability of the capitalist system as a whole, against the short term rapacious greed of particular capitalists and institutions.
uhhh no it isn't. 80% of the population is served by public water utilities, by the count here i can't vouch for where they put PPPs on that chart, which are indeed stupid bullshit. but major cities generally have public water systems