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Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-suggests-us-privatize-postal-service-amtrak-rcna194960

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  • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Another episode of: “is he being malicious or is he really stupid enough to think that would improve things?” Usually the answer is sadly both

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Funny how til relatively recently the postal service was a model of solvancy and effeciancy, then MAGICALLY when lobbiests made demands for htier own service, the post office was told they had to fund pension for the next… sixty years or so in advance. To say nothing of service they were nolonger allowed to do, such as… get this. The post office could at one time do small denomination banking. Anything below five hundred bucks in the sixties. Which would translate into a few thousand dollars now. Used to be something they could do. Then they couldn’t.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a Brit I can tell you this is a bad idea.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what a loser, cant even go in-person to a tech hub, knowing that everyone would boo him there.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t the PO already privatized? I know it isn’t funded by taxes anymore.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same playbook UK just did, they are in the middle of trying to renationalizr rail because it’s such a cluster.

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