Summary
Elon Musk called for privatizing Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service, saying America should privatize “everything we possibly can.”
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, he criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.
While Musk didn’t outline steps for privatization, he acknowledged it would require congressional approval.
His remarks align with Donald Trump, who recently suggested reviewing USPS privatization.
ever since germany privatised rail (and post) while remaining mayority shareholder it has become ultra shit.
quality and reliability has gone down extremely over the years. efforts to mitigate the damage done thanks to neglect probably cost much more than proper maintenence would have cost them. those efforts are paid for by the state ofc.
deutsche bahn is so unreliable, neighbouring states have to cope with them disrupting their own schedules. if anything its reliably unreliable
but you already have a shitty underfunded rail system, so not much change there. the post office on the other hand will be heavily noticeable