It is as good at you make it. And at least there is objective accountability from people not using it for passive income. I loath the argument that government is slow or ineffective. It is an intellectually lazy argument, if not dishonest. Why do you think that private business is any different? Having experience with a company that was small and nimble that grew to a behemoth, the difference was vast. There are simply many, many more stakeholders. Effectiveness and nimbleness is a problem at scale. Yes. Having friends and acquaintances in places big and small, private and government, you see this at play everywhere. You have to accept moving slower at scale, especially at government scale. Doesn’t mean we throw the baby out with the bathwater. Public accountability is taxation. Your money isn’t made in a vacuum. It is the labor of those who have basic needs that aren’t being met while billionaires buy islands and yachts and seek tax shelters off their exploitation of labor.
Exactly this. Any random billionaire has the same Good vs bad argument against them, but without transparency and without accountability… It shouldn’t be 1 white rich guy’s decision how to spend billions of wealth, how society’s wealth is spent should be the result of democratic process, because creating the wealth is an effort in which (nearly) everyone participates too!
When did I say the government is slow? The government is just the most inefficient by nature of how business works. Large corporations are also inefficient, but they tend to be propped up by the government so they dont need to be efficient.
It is as good at you make it. And at least there is objective accountability from people not using it for passive income. I loath the argument that government is slow or ineffective. It is an intellectually lazy argument, if not dishonest. Why do you think that private business is any different? Having experience with a company that was small and nimble that grew to a behemoth, the difference was vast. There are simply many, many more stakeholders. Effectiveness and nimbleness is a problem at scale. Yes. Having friends and acquaintances in places big and small, private and government, you see this at play everywhere. You have to accept moving slower at scale, especially at government scale. Doesn’t mean we throw the baby out with the bathwater. Public accountability is taxation. Your money isn’t made in a vacuum. It is the labor of those who have basic needs that aren’t being met while billionaires buy islands and yachts and seek tax shelters off their exploitation of labor.
Exactly this. Any random billionaire has the same Good vs bad argument against them, but without transparency and without accountability… It shouldn’t be 1 white rich guy’s decision how to spend billions of wealth, how society’s wealth is spent should be the result of democratic process, because creating the wealth is an effort in which (nearly) everyone participates too!
When did I say the government is slow? The government is just the most inefficient by nature of how business works. Large corporations are also inefficient, but they tend to be propped up by the government so they dont need to be efficient.