Inspired by comments in an old entry by a new subscription<\/p>\n
Not all private organizations are solely profit motivated. Some of the worst modern american for profit corporations fit your bill, but that’s hardly the be all and end all of private organizations. The ACLU, food not bombs, EFF, etc, are all private organizations. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, alot of private businesses do not have a corporate motto of ‘damn compassion, profit or death.’ Particularly small businesses, family businesses, whatever. Sometimes people set up businesses to do what they love doing. I suspect a minority of corporations are the poluting, unsafe child labor using, political boundary rearranging bastards we all love to hate.<\/p>\n
Government organizations are not inherently less efficient than market organizations. Particularly not when you consider the risks of monopolistic competition, barriers to entry, and externalities and every other market failure. The market being defined and its rules being enforced by the government, the government is a great source of efficiency.<\/p>\n
This view of “Private organizations are greedy, evil bastards, but ruthlessly good at what they do, while public organizations are bureaucratic and inefficient, well-intentioned, but ineffective, money hemmoraging behemoths,” is simplification well beyond the point of deception.<\/p>\n
Every time you commute to work, every time you log on and read your journal, every time you pay for anything, and every time you walk or drive safely along the city streets without fear of mugging or murder, think of the government, and tell me how useless it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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