Quote from: NeuroticFish on May 06, 2016, 09:08:04 AM

Quote from: Elwar on May 06, 2016, 08:59:22 AM

My garbage, water, sewage and power are all private companies.

So...the idea that by not relying on government those things go away is a failed assumption.

There are also private roads and private police forces. I even had a private fire department when I lived in Georgia. One of the highest rated fire departments in the state.

I actually did have a problem once with my garbage service. So I cancelled their service and called a new company. Meanwhile the next county over that had a public garbage service was having a big controversy over their garbage service not picking up garbage, people had to complain to the government, the unions got involved, there were protests and hearings. Idiotic.

Private companies are fine until the point they make a monopoly.
In my country the gas prices are kinda same everywhere and whatever changes, they only go up.

Although I am 100% certain that the current way the governments are is wrong (all they care about is to get elected and steal our money), there must be some sort of government that can provide the tools to force private companies to play fair.

I also favour the existence of a government but a very minimalistic one indeed. Perhaps monopolies are one of the few issues the governments should take care of. And representational democracy is a failed experiment that should be thrown out the window right away. A form of weighted direct democracy would be much better. A citizen in the government would be something like a shareholder in a company.