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>>> Institutions like healthcare, education, public transport, prisons(!) and so on are more efficient, less corrupt and of higher quality when they are in large parts collectively and democratically organized and funded.

>> Re: prisons - This isn't necessarily the case. Florida's private prisons have air conditioning and the public ones don't in part because of democratic control and the private ones have fewer deaths from heat stroke as a result.

> Extremely suspicious comment. Please elaborate on “democratic control.”

Yeah. Also the GP weirdly collapses "more efficient, less corrupt and of higher quality" into "has air conditioning: Y/N." You have to evaluate those things holistically, and it's quite possible that he holistically-better solution is actually worse in some specific areas.

Also I don't have any specific knowledge about Florida prisons, but private prisons are a new(ish) phenomena [1], and "hav[ing] air conditioning" might simply be an unintended consequence of that, because building standards have changed.

[1] You know what I mean, don't nitpick with some ancient example.




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