@mage @transgrammaractivist For sure, that stuff is the "private gain/public loss" which is quite common now, because the public/private partnership was .. thought up to deal with poorly running publicly managed things.

The idea was that if people were enticed by the profit they could run things better. And some of them did .. for a time.

The problem ultimately is that people wanted to manage an increasingly complex society while making the oversight of said society as minimal as possible at the same time.