To anyone who thinks USPS is going down to drain due to their own incompetency, just so you know, they're being destroyed from within, and due to external pressures of other shipping companies, as well as demands from Amazon for example.
There's a whole disaster waiting to happen for folks who depend on med delivery for example (private shipping companies are simply indifferent on this matter, for all they care, you can go die in a ditch, as they're not mandated to ship anything that isn't to their preference).
Like most public services, the idea that they must generate a profit is complete and utter stupidity. In reality, public services are doing something wrong if they're generating a profit - in fact that is contrarian to the idea of why they even exist. They're supposed to be draining because alternatives from any other source are simply unviable (and any other source is a business, and businesses don't have reason to exist outside of profit initiatives).
Think about amenities like parks, or recreational public services.. The ideological idea of why they exist in the first place, is to produce a society that is high with well-being, as it has been shown that as a species, we produce better results the higher the well-being markers are. So for businesses that want better employees, they can't get it if you're going to have an oppressive life experience for said employees as they grow up and eventually reach the age of employment by businesses. The hope is that, with enough public investment (everyone's taxes as agreed upon the universal understanding of providing people a livable world to inhabit, and not some jungle that it's starting to trend toward regress in some parts of the world now), the people living and working can be more productive, and everyone enjoys the fruits of their work, their life, and the society they live in.
To then turn around with this retarded idea that public services ought now generate profits, is something a robber baron could only conjure, or just pure retards. The reason being, is it would be like having your cake and eating it twice. The public services are already aiming to produce better people to fill a society with content and highly functioning citizens. The fact that some people are saying a public service should also generate profit or be eradicated, would be conflating what a businesses should be doing... But also betraying through dishonesty, implying that a public service doesn't ultimately generate more profits in virtue of producing citizens that then go on to produce better products and generally well-being and lives for everyone at the end of the day.
This level of retardation is tantamount to expecting the act of washing your hands itself to generate profits, before the actual monetary profits are generated from someone cooking your food when folks go out on a night of dining
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Like why would the act of washing your hands be expected to generate a profit in of itself? Or why would the act of providing that water be expected to generate the profit, instead of simply businesses that rely on clean employee hands for the meals they will be selling on behalf of a business?
Straight up insane - and the fact that stuff like this goes completely ignored in discussions with adults is honestly unbelievable. This stuff not being caught by kids would be believable, but by grown ass men in the halls of legislature? Did any of these people attend school and absorb any knowledge beyond their workplace mandatory knowledge they needed for function for their occupation for goodness sake? Or are Libertarians all over societal thinking these days?