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Of course. It's a lie perpetuated by capitalists that the government can't do things efficiently. The government can absolutely do things efficiently, the cost

Of course. It's a lie perpetuated by capitalists that the government can't do things efficiently. The government can absolutely do things efficiently, the costs are usually by having more protections for the employees, which is good. Additionally, we remove the need for a profit layer that would go to owners (the nation is the owner in this case) so to achieve the same results as nation owned companies Not to mention that there is no exit to look for, nation owned companies cannot be stripped of assets and they cannot claw and scrape the consumer, which is how for-profit-private companies would operate. Now am I saying that all things should be nation owned? Of course not. I'm saying that monopolies, infrastructure and huge old government companies should be and should stay as nation owned. Private companies will work with providing for these companies resources that they don't have and would pay more to develop themselves.

tracker1 7y ago
While I will conceptually agree, that optimizing some things via the government can work better. In practice, however, it often leads to cronyism, corruption, bureaucracy and/or stagnation. On the flip side, I'm also against certain things being incentivized by the government. I'm against private prisons on pure premise. In the end, I'm pragmatic and prefer to optimize for those solutions which require the least oversight and ensure for the best competition practical. I'd also like to see an "open body" of course content made more widely available, so that districts and teachers may pull in said content for individualized courses. Educational publishing is about as corrupt as it gets IMHO. I do think that for most things, there are ways to incentivize appropriate outcome from private businesses and initiatives with the government. This includes more appropriate provisioning and budgeting practices.

tracker1 7y ago

While I will conceptually agree, that optimizing some things via the government can work better. In practice, however, it often leads to cronyism, corruption, bureaucracy and/or stagnation. On the flip side, I'm also against certain things being incentivized by the government. I'm against private prisons on pure premise. In the end, I'm pragmatic and prefer to optimize for those solutions which require the least oversight and ensure for the best competition practical. I'd also like to see an "open body" of course content made more widely available, so that districts and teachers may pull in said content for individualized courses. Educational publishing is about as corrupt as it gets IMHO. I do think that for most things, there are ways to incentivize appropriate outcome from private businesses and initiatives with the government. This includes more appropriate provisioning and budgeting practices.