greece is quite the example to use first considering stuff like this https://jacobin.com/2023/03/greece-railroad-accident-safety-austerity-privatization but obviously i have better things to do than go through every single one of those examples, so i’ll give this point. the uk was doing fine, if not great with a strong public industry. then successive neoliberal Tory governments, starting with the devil incarnate Th*tcher, privatised everything and gave us years and years of austerity. now everything’s crap.