Luke Kaven wrote:
"Michael McKelvy" wrote:


Sometimes, as inefficient as the government is, it is the best place
to locate certain programs, because whatever faults the government has
in administering said programs, they are accountable in a way that
private industry rarely is, at least in the present scheme of things.

Private industry has to provide good product and service or it goes
tits up. Government service has no such threat over its head.


There are a couple of specious assumptions in what you say here that
are not backed up by research in the social sciences. The assumption
that industry serves the needs of its consumers is only a contingent
matter of fact, and while it is often a factor, it is by far not the
only factor, and it is not always the most important factor.
Corporations serve themselves first and foremost, and they will do
what they have to do to further their self-interests. They have a
life all of their own without any regard necessarily for anyone's
well-being except their own.

And until we eliminate the concept of corporate personhood, we will continue to be enslaved...