Good for you, now go research what happens when you have a government do it.
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I lived both. Do perhaps think that the private companies are not colluded with the government? Do you hope they let you run the thing? They will run the thing without any constrain and with regulation that makes them a monopoly. At least when the basic services were handled by municipalities, people had the right to be part of. As usual local control is the key.
Youre making my point. Private companies are colluding with governments. But Its not the private part that's the issue.
Local municipalities don't give you an option to use their services. Its literally the same problem.
The only thing that makes it better is when there's no monopoly.
Look i can agree with you that local governments are on average going to be better than a national or world government. But polictal distribution of resources are almost always a shittier way to do it compared to free markets.
The issue is clear. The final goal is the problem. Basic utilities should not be part of capitalism as shouldn't the army, the police and at least some schools. What I mean is that some event in life can make people very poor and some few survival level items should be provided at a non competitive cost. And I am not speaking about welfare. There should be no competition in water. You should always be able to go on the street and drink from a fountain. I have seen them disappear in some places as soon as the water has been privatized. This is not ok. Survival is not on the economic game.
But all you're doing is moving the resource control to political means. You're not guaranteeing access at all. The notion you can avoid economic reality by hand waving it away is not going to work. If you want the cost of survival to fall, then your best bet is an open market.
Politics fails when the system is too big and the politics life is not getting affected by their choices. In a city or county they live there together with all others. It usually works
You are right that local politics works better than say national. But you can't have just local politics. You need the larger structure because its the only way to do war effectively when there's already other big players. And if your local municipality works so well it might attract enough people until its not that small anymore.
Economic reality doesn't go away.
I understand that. I moved for my convenience in a country with 1.5 millions people. The government stay little because every single citizen can reach the parliament in 1 hour by car. It looks like little dimensions are the only parameter that works. For war there are alliances.