[thanks to] the psychopaths in treasury and the adam smith institute, the whole british economy — and it’s only more true today — is built around the idea that value comes from the interfaces between the things that do stuff, not from the things that do stuff.

diagram of british rail privatisation; on the left, just the british rail logo, on the right, a public owner of tracks and stations plus a complex marketplace of infrastructure maintenance units, track renewal units, train operating units, freight operators, rolling stock companies, regulators, and a franchising authority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoqYwGgsjA