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		aubanel 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Britain's railway privatization was an abject fail... Other sources indicate that privatization was a huge success! The number of passengers dropped after nationalizations, and exploded after privatisation (despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GBR_rail_passengers_...

iggldiggl 32 days ago [–]

> despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping

Did it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GB_Rail_Subsidy,_1985-201...

paints a slightly more complex picture.

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