Man sues Los Angeles for parking ticket, gets $650K

The “same entity” is the voters. That’s you. Vote the government you want.

Unfortunately, since you want as little government as possible, you voted in corporate boot-lickers. Oh wait! Now everything’s outsourced, doesn’t work for shit, and costs twice as much! This is terrible! If only the invisible hand of the free market was here to save me, because after all, government is always the cause of all problems in society, and if it isn’t working correctly it must mean we have too much of it.

A real simple method of proving this ideology is bullshit: in my town we don’t have municipal trash pick up. Instead, we have a dozen little local and one or two regional/national companies that pick up the trash. The freedom to choose, ah, the glory of the free market! Except, no, the prices are the same, our town looks like a third world country with converted rusted-out U-Hauls stuffed with trash running around everywhere, and there’s a trash truck running down my street three times a week because nothing says efficiency like endless redundancy.

And that guy is laughing at idiots who think a private corporation is going to be more responsive to the public than a public agency.

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Stop ruining my plan with your fancy law talk and logic!

Thank you, @popobawa4u and @jeezers, for replying to this comment. Couldn’t have done it better myself (really).

Govt contractors do not work for the same entity as govt employees. Govt contractors nearly always have shareholders or other principals, and thus have divided loyalties that govt employees do not have. If you were/are in the UK it would only be necessary for me to say Capita, or G4S as illustrations of practical reality being different from your assumed principle.

ETA Also, public servants are for some reason not usually able to define the requirements in a contract that ensures the same outcomes as would occur if public employees had done the job. It IS a commercial transaction the moment a contractor is involved, and that changes everything.

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