It's so infuriating, and we keep electing politicians who suck corporate dicks and promote privatization.

Say it with me now:

Critical services must be government owned to promote service integrity.

While people might argue against this, if your existence of as a government hinges on the quality of the services you provide, and the only metric is votes, then you're going to do your damnedest to make sure you get the most votes and that means providing the best services.

Conversely, private industry has money as the metric and the best way to get more money is to get people to pay the same for less. It's the easiest way. Who wants to invest in better products/services when we can do less and cut shit and make more money.

Now that's not to say there aren't exceptions, but this is the general theme