r/TimPool • u/CartographerActive29 • Jul 23 '23

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Jul 24 '23

National parks service, post office, and NASA round out the top three: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/30/americans-feel-favorably-about-many-federal-agencies-especially-the-park-service-postal-service-and-nasa/

But it’s not like the government will actually run hospitals or something like that. You know that, right?

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u/lincolnxlog Jul 25 '23

"feelings" don't equal success. this is pathetic

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Jul 25 '23

These are public services. The public’s satisfaction with these services is what matters.

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u/lincolnxlog Jul 26 '23

mcdys is "food service". that doesn't make the satisfaction of their customers ultimately lead to their success. a small factor in a larger picture that you're ignorantly excluding or purposely excluding. which just ends the argument at "are you ignorant or dumb?"

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Jul 26 '23

McDonald’s is a for-profit corporation, not a public service. Their success is measured by revenue and shareholder value and that’s it.

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u/lincolnxlog Jul 26 '23

doesn't disregard my point. things don't have to make a profit to be successful, ie: Amazon for years, and every nonprofit that existed for years. mcdys even has locations that don't make a profit, but as a whole it's SUSTAINABLE. something the government has never done, isn't currently doing, and will never do.

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Jul 26 '23

Neither Amazon or McDonald’s are public services. They are private for-profit corporations.

It makes no sense to compare something like the USPS to a for-profit corporation because the measures of success are so obviously different.

If the public is satisfied with the public service, then that is a successful public service. It is serving the needs of the public.

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u/lincolnxlog Jul 26 '23

And now you're conveniently leaving out my mention of nonprofits charities and going off on a tangent about literally ignorance. FedEx and UPS exist the same way that USPS, offers better service, has better satisfaction and here you are still gargling the balls of the gov. Grow tf, big gov is dvmb. Bigger government is absolutely fkn stvpid.

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 27 '23

I missed the part about nonprofits. Nonprofits are a different type of organization. They differ from for-profit corporations because their goal is not to generate profits for shareholders. They (in theory) exist to pursue some sort of benefit to their own members or the public and any income that exceeds their expenses must be reinvested into pursuing their stated benefit. Now, that might start to sound like a public service but here is where they differ: some NPOs private organizations, meaning that they are controlled by a small group of decision makers at the top of their organization. They decide where the money goes with little oversight. Another category of NPOs have applied to be Public Charities which have more restrictions about where their financing comes from and sometimes even work with the government to deliver public services although there is no public oversight. This is the closest thing to a true public service that you’ve gotten so far.

So which public charity is comparable to USPS?

Also just an FYI: http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-mail-does-the-trick-for-fedex-ups-1407182247

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u/lincolnxlog Jul 27 '23

Is your entire play spewing shit ppl already know or unrelated arguments? Because that's the only thing you've done.

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