Thomas Frank

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

American Author

Henry Giroux

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

American Critic

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

American Activist

Eli Broad

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

American Businessman

John Delaney

Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

American Politician

Paul Broun

TSA needs to be totally changed. I would like them to be privatized.

Jesse Ventura

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Bill Flores

I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.

Saxby Chambliss

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

Erik Prince

The term is often discussed in politics; opinions on privatization can be strong and divided.

Political Debate

When learning 'privatize,' understand it can lead to major shifts in economies and affect jobs.

Economic Impact

'Privatize' is often used about services like healthcare, education, and transport.

Social Services

When something shared becomes private, we use 'privatize' to express exclusivity.

Personal Space

Using 'privatize' can imply giving special access to a select group.

Privileged Access

Be aware that privatizing a cultural or public event may be sensitive to some.

Cultural Sensitivity

 other in great ways but private communities private corporate privatizing communities are not bottom of democracies they cannot replace government friending someone on facebook is not complex enough to do the hard work of you and I collaborating with each other in doing the hard work of

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 And on a macro level -- some of the speakers have inferred that even health should be privatized. But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help,

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 of insinuating space for the public into otherwise private building projects. Either way, all democracies need champions. It's our role, as stewards of the urban realm, to will public space into existence and to democratize our progressively privatized cities.

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 And of course, technology does offer the tantalizing promise of helping control a pandemic through contact tracing. But it also opens up another door, to privatized mass surveillance. So what do we do about this private spy bazaar? We can hide, go offline,

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 and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it, and reclaiming village life, reclaiming interdependence instead. Fifty million of us, for example, live in intergenerational households. This number exploded with the Great Recession,

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 actually been in private property for longer than that I'll forget exactly when it was privatized but for about 60 odd years 70 years maybe even getting there people have been trying to conduct wilderness sort of events and this is

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 out of businesses it had nothing -- it had no business being in. The state should not be in the business of producing goods and services because it's inefficient and incompetent. So we decided to privatize many of our enterprises.

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 because we already tried that with the financial system, and our stewards became massively corrupted as they figured out how they could cut corners, inflict massive, massive risks on the rest of us and privatize the gains,

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 is that even though judges are such an important part of government, we've basically privatized the system of making them. That work is done, if it's done at all, within the private legal profession. And here's the thing.

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 freedom, the allure of privatism -- privatized places, privatized people, privatized things.