My teacher says when you privatize industry, such as DMV, you cant complain about problems or bring issues up to anyone. She spent hours at DMV the other day because their computers went down, and they didnt want to do things manually, so they locked the doors and kept people out. And she brought it up because I talk about the privatization of government agencies a lot, but i thought DMV was government run?
She is, of course, exactly 180 degrees wrong. The service sucks because you have to go there. There isn't a different business you could take your business to.
It sounds as if she's bought into the lie that the ONLY way to get what you want is by voting, by "the democratic process". When she hears "private", she just thinks that there will be some single rich person or board of directors that get to make all the decisions, and would listen to no one else, like she would. Instead it is private business that must more dearly listen to their customers, because they can leave at any time.
Ask her if, given the option, she would choose a different DMV service provider. That's what libertarianism is. Whenever someone complains about the Post Office, the Roads, Police, War, Welfare, Medicare, etc., etc., turn around and ask them if they want to switch ______ service providers (e.g. postal, roads, security, charity, etc.). Libertarianism isn't so much about privatization as it is competitiveness.
