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I am a mix. Sometimes the profit motive and market dynamics work against what are civilized, just and humane outcomes. The incentives run in conflict with eth
by ddingus 8y ago
I am a mix.
Sometimes the profit motive and market dynamics work against what are civilized, just and humane outcomes. The incentives run in conflict with ethics and morality. (In general)
Health care, at least primary care, is an easy example. Fire, police, etc. Are others.
Socializing these things makes great sense. Our poor outcomes and insane cost and citizen risk exposure stand easily in support of those ideas being strong.
Things like utilities, water, power, vary. I have seen excellent private examples and where I live, public examples are working well. There are poor examples all over the place. More work and better priorities are needed, IMHO.
I favor public infrastructure too. The Interstate highway project served us well. That model applied to the needs of today would pay us again, just as nicely.
Markets are awesome! Where we do not have those conflicts, we should use them.
Where it is a luxury, light regulation makes sense.
Where it is more necessary, or there are clear risks, incentives or problems with competition, more regulation makes sense.
I do not like big monopolies, sans strong regulation. Rent seeking and low value for high dollars do not make sense.
There you go. A rough lay of the land, from one tech minded persons POV.