Interestingly, there hasn't been a middle yet. Look over the last thousand years - we just keep socializing more and more. We didn't used to have public utilities. We didn't used to have public transportation. We're talking now about public internet access. Anything that ends up defined as "needed" by everyone, or economically beneficial for everyone to have (like school) trends toward the public.
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Date: 2007-07-18 06:04 pm (UTC)