ok. In India, water is private. When I see people being forced to buy water from private water trucks, instead of public water being delivered with public pipes to the home, I want to cry.
I do not care about people not being able to buy their own house. In Switzerland, only 50% of the people own their own house. In Japan, people buy their first house at age 40. Why should China be different? Why should people own their own house? But I do care if I have to buy private water from a water truck because the government privatized water.
Maybe air should be privatized too so that we must pay to breath air. Maybe bottled air. I think an Indian entrepeneur would think of this. It would make him very rich, but it would be the greatest evil this world has ever seen.
Let me just ask 1 question:
Thailand has had basically 300 years of peaceful development; did privatization help Thailand? Thailand should be as rich as Italy, if privatization was the determining factor. Both are capitalist countries allied to the US with private economies and with population around 30 million.
Russia had less than 30 years of peaceful development by 1950; the USSR fought a war for 1/3 of its existence for the first 30 years. They were a superpower through socialism.
