Re: Roads. Electricity. Internet.
"The only problem is that nationally owned infrastructure is generally mismanaged by a committee. I've no idea why"
No incentives to do the job well since most of the boards of nationalised industries were in jobs for life given to them by mates in the government of the time. And this attitude trickled all the way down to the shop floor. Couple that with workers in a monopoly having the country over a barrel if they strike because one of their lazy arsed colleagues got fired or they don't like the colour of the bog rolls, and you have the perfect recipe for an inefficient mess. If you need a current example - the endless problems on London Underground (nationalised transport) with the bolshie RMT union.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
