@neil I suspect the answer, lacking governments prepared to provide services themselves rather than subcontracting, is cooperatives that explicitly don't get to extract profit from the operation. But I've only rarely heard of these, and mostly they seem to shut down or get bought out.

@futurebird Thing that has been heard recently in my home: "Good morning, cat. How may I disappoint you today?"

@Richard_Littler It's 1910. G K Chesterton (as Father Brown) is quite sure that the existing English way of doing things is the best possible way, and no English person should have anything to do with someone who looks "foreign".