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What kind of role do you think the government should play? Should we continue to privatize things like prisons? Seems it would be difficult to incentive rehabil
by zajd 9y ago
What kind of role do you think the government should play? Should we continue to privatize things like prisons? Seems it would be difficult to incentive rehabilitation when prisons are paid per bed filled. On the other side, should we privatize the military? the fire department? the courts? the police? why not?
- nickpp 9y agoA role as small as possible, but not smaller. Specifics depends of the domain, and there you need a domain expert, which I am not. I just believe that as a general strategy, we should be continuously attempting to reduce govt power and involvement while allowing the free markets to work. I am worried that we are doing the opposite, where our current response to pretty much any issue is more govt regulation/intervention instead. A middle way would be great.
- zajd 9y ago> I just believe that as a general strategy, we should be continuously attempting to reduce govt power and involvement while allowing the free markets to work. Sure, I can agree with that. But what if the lack of government power is what is preventing free markets from working? Things like anti-monopoly legislation. I mean, I'll give you that the reason these things exist is because private companies use the government to enforce their monopoly. But how do you plan on opposing that without using some sort of anti-trust action?