Dr. Walter Block, the guy who WROTE THE BOOK on privatizing roads and highways, explains who would build the roads at The Voluntaryism Conference in Sedona.
Private industry is as untrustworthy as government. Both have ambitions to monopolize and both are corrupt and corruptible. Transparency and scrutiny by the people who are taxed is imperative and we see where PPP's or G3P has been corrupted by both colluders in private and Public services.
Neoliberal Progressives are demanding the privatization of everything. Duplication of services does not lead to efficiency, even if the Jesuit doesn't agree.
The fact remains even if it is unpalatable certain services are served by both private and public enterprises. Horses for courses in my opinion. Private an Public markets are not symmetrical another unpalatable fact.
I don't really think most business people are that untrustworthy... Most are providing a service in the free market that helps people feed themselves, clothe themselves, repair their cars, fix their AC, etc. The ONLY way you get monopoly is with "government" In a free market a company might have a temporary market dominance BUT it is usually caused by their being an exceptionally efficient supplier able to dominate on cost and quality which benefits consumers. If they raise prices then they attract competitors who drive it down again...
We are being misled by private companies. Their interest is increasing shareholder (investors) value. That is its purpose. They claim to favour free markets only when it suits them.
PRIVATE players has no interest to serve the public, only to use public funds as low cost capital as long as government becomes a shareholder and provides protection. In that way they collude with the state, and that is the PPP, which I mentioned. It is the new WEF progressive neoliberal stakeholder scam (Cronyism) that they are willing to participate in provided they can form a monopoly. The most obvious market collusion is health care. The arrangements are hidden from scrutiny by the public and are never transparent.
We the general public, saw how they all colluded with the State hoping for quid pro quo during Covid19.
There is a very small portion of small business who actually do what you claim that "helps people feed themselves, clothe themselves, repair their cars, fix their AC, etc.". Those small one man shows are the ones I support and small farmers. Private ownership does not necessarily translate into improved efficiency and often becomes a headache for consumers as they gobble up competition. So, sorry Etienne de la Boetie2 but that is so.
The other is education and especially universities and another is the seed business for example where they monopolise using created GMO's to capture and dominate and keep out competitors by tying up farming enterprises as producers of seed, not for products for public consumption but for market domination of seed production. You will notice that all the big chemical fertiliser and herbicide producing companies, now dominate this market. That is why we now have a market War ongoing between organic and large commercial producers. Farmers may not use excess seed they paid for for next years crop and must return it for credit.
Banking is the other real big scam and that is where we see the worst domination and bullying taking place with CBDC's and digitizing Identity etc will massive Government as well as unelected private conglomerates colluding.
I can imagine the sort of people who will agree with this opinion, but it is severely mistaken as a means to resolve the western material mindset. With modern man it seems that every improvement quickly creates the next limit we must overcome. Not content to drive within the individual limitations of each individual's sensory and intelligent capabilities, we must do everything quicker/better without reference to all other species. We are one of many species of life that inhabit this planet, arguably the most intelligent/advanced, and yet we fail in our responsibilities to this beautiful planet. We drive when we could walk or cycle, we destroy anew rather than re-cycle, we leave toxic materials for some future time when it is 'economic' to properly deal with the issues they create. We are a disgrace to this planet. Contrast this to the indigenous people we have murdered in order to plunder the earths riches. They are and were far more advanced than we currently are, and they too did have their periods of conflict and destruction when the illness of individual desire for more/better gripped them. The earth has carried us through such times without complaint - though it has created events to warn us of our folly. The simple though challenging solution is to become at one with all that is, reject the sense of 'me/I' as a separate individual 'self' and utilise the full extent of our capabilities - ones that we have neglected but can open a deeper more profound connection than we believe is possible.
Private industry is as untrustworthy as government. Both have ambitions to monopolize and both are corrupt and corruptible. Transparency and scrutiny by the people who are taxed is imperative and we see where PPP's or G3P has been corrupted by both colluders in private and Public services.
Neoliberal Progressives are demanding the privatization of everything. Duplication of services does not lead to efficiency, even if the Jesuit doesn't agree.
The fact remains even if it is unpalatable certain services are served by both private and public enterprises. Horses for courses in my opinion. Private an Public markets are not symmetrical another unpalatable fact.
I don't really think most business people are that untrustworthy... Most are providing a service in the free market that helps people feed themselves, clothe themselves, repair their cars, fix their AC, etc. The ONLY way you get monopoly is with "government" In a free market a company might have a temporary market dominance BUT it is usually caused by their being an exceptionally efficient supplier able to dominate on cost and quality which benefits consumers. If they raise prices then they attract competitors who drive it down again...
We are being misled by private companies. Their interest is increasing shareholder (investors) value. That is its purpose. They claim to favour free markets only when it suits them.
PRIVATE players has no interest to serve the public, only to use public funds as low cost capital as long as government becomes a shareholder and provides protection. In that way they collude with the state, and that is the PPP, which I mentioned. It is the new WEF progressive neoliberal stakeholder scam (Cronyism) that they are willing to participate in provided they can form a monopoly. The most obvious market collusion is health care. The arrangements are hidden from scrutiny by the public and are never transparent.
We the general public, saw how they all colluded with the State hoping for quid pro quo during Covid19.
There is a very small portion of small business who actually do what you claim that "helps people feed themselves, clothe themselves, repair their cars, fix their AC, etc.". Those small one man shows are the ones I support and small farmers. Private ownership does not necessarily translate into improved efficiency and often becomes a headache for consumers as they gobble up competition. So, sorry Etienne de la Boetie2 but that is so.
The other is education and especially universities and another is the seed business for example where they monopolise using created GMO's to capture and dominate and keep out competitors by tying up farming enterprises as producers of seed, not for products for public consumption but for market domination of seed production. You will notice that all the big chemical fertiliser and herbicide producing companies, now dominate this market. That is why we now have a market War ongoing between organic and large commercial producers. Farmers may not use excess seed they paid for for next years crop and must return it for credit.
Banking is the other real big scam and that is where we see the worst domination and bullying taking place with CBDC's and digitizing Identity etc will massive Government as well as unelected private conglomerates colluding.
I can imagine the sort of people who will agree with this opinion, but it is severely mistaken as a means to resolve the western material mindset. With modern man it seems that every improvement quickly creates the next limit we must overcome. Not content to drive within the individual limitations of each individual's sensory and intelligent capabilities, we must do everything quicker/better without reference to all other species. We are one of many species of life that inhabit this planet, arguably the most intelligent/advanced, and yet we fail in our responsibilities to this beautiful planet. We drive when we could walk or cycle, we destroy anew rather than re-cycle, we leave toxic materials for some future time when it is 'economic' to properly deal with the issues they create. We are a disgrace to this planet. Contrast this to the indigenous people we have murdered in order to plunder the earths riches. They are and were far more advanced than we currently are, and they too did have their periods of conflict and destruction when the illness of individual desire for more/better gripped them. The earth has carried us through such times without complaint - though it has created events to warn us of our folly. The simple though challenging solution is to become at one with all that is, reject the sense of 'me/I' as a separate individual 'self' and utilise the full extent of our capabilities - ones that we have neglected but can open a deeper more profound connection than we believe is possible.