Clearly they weren't that posh. Proper posh is happy to swear like a trooper. It's the neurotic middle classes who worry about it. (View Post)

Depends. If you own a water company in order to provide water and sewage services, fine. If you own a water company as a thing that generates cashflow in order to allow you to borrow enormous sums of… (View Post)

Ideally, yes. In practice, it seems harder to do than to say. There's a parallel with evolution here- however hard governments work to devise good regulations, at least some capitalists will wor… (View Post)

Not just that- when capitalists bought the water companies, they didn't do so out of the goodnesses of their hearts. They had a duty to extract as much value as they could from their new posessi… (View Post)

Leaving aside the whole "Florence Nightingale wasn't a prison warder" thing, don't you have to purpose-build prisons properly if you want to actually imprison people? Converting c… (View Post)