The Private Sector Is Now Providing Basic Services to Flint:
Charity has always been an essential element of the American ethos, with private citizens, corporations, and philanthropies helping out in times of need. Yet the Flint case might give some reason for pause. Failures of government and the effective disenfranchisement of Flint voters produced the crisis, and now private-sector philanthropy is jumping in to fill the gap. But that may introduce its own problems.
It seems that the people over at the Atlantic don’t understand how accountability works. Consumers free to end their association with private companies leverage far more power than citizens that can’t stop paying their water bills even when what they’re paying for is poison.
