The magic of public-private partnerships strikes again.

Like most of the time, this will probably be held for some kind of extortionist legal ransom. We just love handing our stuff over to bad-faith third-parties in the name of some kind of imagined freedom. Just can't get enough of it. Public infrastructure, national archives, city services, we just seem to be completely deer-in-the-headlights when they pull this stuff on the daily...

So here we go again. We blindly trust in private parties always magically acting in good faith when there's billions on the table incentivizing them not to.

We've been doing it like this for 40 years and it hasn't worked, but I'm sure our ideological commitments will bend reality eventually.

This is your money btw.