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Anyone who thinks the government should be "run like a business" does not deserve to be given an ounce of serious consideration in any sphere of intellectual di
by voxl 2y ago
Anyone who thinks the government should be "run like a business" does not deserve to be given an ounce of serious consideration in any sphere of intellectual discourse. A business does not get to print profit.
- hermannj314 2y agoMost of my interactions with government take place with state and local governments and they are definitely not allowed to print profit as far as I recall. Public schools, police departments, parks, streets - I interact with these more than any other government service and no of them can print their own money and most of them work really hard to be run like businesses that care deeply about budgets and managing costs.
- voxl 2y agoThis is what we call a strawman in the business, as I'm clearly referring to the federal government. Yet, none of your examples should be run as a business either. They should be run as nonprofits. Not many nonprofit CEO oligarchs wreaking havoc in the government these days are there?
- blackqueeriroh 2y agoWhat part of the federal government is “printing profit,” as you say?
- hermannj314 2y agoI never said any part of the federal government is. Why am I being asked to a defend a position I never took?
- pstuart 2y agoAnd they've clearly never worked for a large business. Any organization comprising large numbers of people are going to be inefficient and unwieldy.
- honzabe 2y agoAristotle explained (in Politics) why running government like a business is a bad idea. Sometimes it feels that we are forgetting what we have learned and have to re-learn it the hard way again and again.
- mullingitover 2y agoThe same people who think it should be run like a business are wholly opposed to running it as a planned economy, even though each company in the US is a little totalitarian state with a completely planned economy.