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Crikey, speak the truth on here, get a downvote. Like clockwork!
by hash-set 10y ago
Crikey, speak the truth on here, get a downvote. Like clockwork!
- pmyteh 10y agoBecause it's an unsubtle polemic that misses its target. All government inefficient? Check. And wrong. Charity as the single solution to collective action problems? Check. And has substantial real-world limits due to the free-rider problem. Medicare inefficient? Check. And ludicrously wrong. Dropping a standard-issue screed into a thread tends to attract downvotes because it isn't serious.
- exstudent2 10y ago> All government inefficient? Check. And wrong. Can you name an efficient government program?
- colechristensen 10y agoThe NTSB
- Spooky23 10y agoMedicare
- jartelt 10y agoMedicare is pretty efficient and a lot of people on the program like it.
- pmyteh 10y agoAt a completely different scale to those mentioned by others, council housing maintenance by Darlington Borough Council in England. I used to work for them and looked at privatising it; it was too damned cheap to be undercut by any of the private companies. Government is full of bits that work very well, as well as bits that work very badly. Governments are complicated; sweeping statements are usually wrong.
- hash-set 10y agoThey don't want to hear it.
- sctb 10y agoThe guidelines ask you to please not do this. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239679 and marked it off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html