Yesterday it took me nearly three hours to go back home after work, instead of the normal 40 minutes ride. It was just another one of those train signal failure that forced me to take an underground to a different line, which will then take me to a place from which I could take a bus to a place walking distance from home.

Unfortunately it’s not a rare occasion. Unfortunately, I know I won’t get compensated for the extra time or money I had to spend. Unfortunately, no one at work today agreed to put any money against me that such an occurrence will not happen again within a months.

The entire concept of privatisation of monopolies makes no sense to me. But this is not surprising as I am neither a supporter of capitalism nor partyocracy. So I would appreciate if someone who believes in our system can explain how it really works. Because all I can see is how most people pay for some fat bustards to get richer.

• Tax payers pay tax to the government, which build the train infrastructure for the benefit of the tax payers.

• The government decide they are more concerned with quick money (to pay for democratically voted for Iraq war, for instance) so they forget that the tax payers paid for the train, and decide to sell it to the fat-cash-cow milking company that pay the highest bribes. (By the way, is it really legal for a government to sell something that belongs to the public?)

• The fat-cow milkmen who borrowed the money to buy the cash cow, is now committed only to its shareholders. But this is easy as they have a monopoly, and if commuters and service is not on their agenda, all they need to do is take apart, destroy, under invest, and squeeze.

• The utterly unhappy commuters are not good news before elections so the government take the mandate away from the company, but leave them with the profits. After all it wasn’t public property anymore when they destroyed it.

• The government now find a skinny cash-cow milking company.

Am I the only one who feels that it sounds like the old feudalist system, or am I missing anything?