A meme that privateers taking over state-owned agencies have taken to heart far, far too often. The privateers who’ve taken over state-owned infrastructure in Britain, the Russian Federation and in the Americas are quite happy to enrich themselves at the expense of maintenance and upgrades. Milton Freidman’s belief that the private sector will always run things better than state-owned entities seems profoundly misplaced.
I do not consider myself a socialist, but I do believe that any private entity taking over former state-owned infrastructure ought to have moral and legal obligations to keep things in good repair.
EDIT: Clearly that is not happening with Britain’s sewage systems.
Maybe “sewer socialism” (a term once used in American political parlance) isn’t such a bad thing after all. 
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