Corporatization

  

You don’t like when the guv’mint goes running businesses that could be more efficient under the control of businessmen. After all, look at the Post Office.

So you want those public companies...owned and operated by that government...to be privatized.

That process of turning state assets, government agencies, or firms run by cities into private firms is known as corporatization. Historically, privatization has proven to offer improvements in performance.

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