We have free market internet and phone services in the u.k. most of Europe really.
Usually 20 different options available for each at any given moment.
We have an open market whilst america does not. Many states have 1 single provider for almost everything. That's not free market, that's Monopoly driven by bad policy.
Hell even Google was held back by AT&T for 5 years to put fibre internet in a couple county's.
We have Verizon, Cricket, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Frontier... several. There isn’t a limitation of services.
The fact of the matter is, “free market” capitalism is not always more efficient than public services.
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If you live in a state that has multiple options then what even is your argument?
That a customer purposely chooses a bad provider and has to wait on the phone instead of moving to a better one?
Or that every provider everywhere makes everyone wait on the phone for 5 hours, where as a government provider would never do that...unlike all the services where it does..like the dmv?
Many developed countries’ governments provide very efficient healthcare, not like the wait times sometimes common in Canada.
The U.S. Postal Service is very efficient.
I will repeat, the grass is not always greener with privatized options.
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I live in the u.k , hospital wait times are pretty much the same as Canada.
Hell it took a week to see a doctor to get a referral to a 6 months appointment to see a skin specialist only to immediately tell me any relevant service isn't available and to visit a private clinic or do without.
Grass isn't greener? No. It certainly isn't. You should take your own advice on that.
Also the u.s postal service doesn't seem very efficient to me, seeing as they hemorrhage up to tens of billions a year, can't compete with any parcel company on cost and objectively deliver junk mail at a far common rate to any other form of post.