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> Someone will propose privatization of said program

Someone would if given the time and infrastructure. This, on the other hand, is more DOGE-style idiocy.

Orrrr said privatized thing will start out relatively cheaper than the norm and eventually end up costing way more than what the government was originally spending when it was still part of the government since the private company eventually outpriced everyone with their cheap prices and then when they finally got their monopoly scaled up their prices as much as they feasibly could and then some.

Surely you jest! /s

Privatized profits, socialized costs

so, Planetes then

I get this reference!

Even as an anime grump, I liked this one.

A fantastic show

The privatization of this data has always been the plan, IIRC that's why the first Trump administration pulled some of these efforts out of the military