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> businesses are more effective for the simple reason that they create things of value that people want to buy and work for, unlike governments. Not sure about
by bottled_poe 12y ago
> businesses are more effective for the simple reason that they create things of value that people want to buy and work for, unlike governments.
Not sure about you, but I can think of a few minor things provided by government which some people might value:
1. Social order
2. A legal system
3. Safety and security services
4. Political representation at a national level
5. An education system
6. Public transportation network
7. Medical services
It is absurd to dismiss government as having no value to society. Without government you would barely have a society.
- patrickaljord 12y agoYou're right, government does create value, sorry if what I said wasn't very clear. What I meant was the last part of the sentence, private enterprise creates things people want to buy, willingly so, government create things people are forced to buy by law, by the power of guns. As for what you listed, many of these services could be provided by private enterprise and are in many country, successfully so, in fact more so than in the US.