Greed is good

William S. Lear rael at dejanews.com
Fri Jun 12 08:32:09 PDT 1998


On Thu, June 11, 1998 at 14:44:19 (-0700) Jordan Hayes writes:
>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> So it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that public
>> investment in- and ownership of- the means of production is a
>> more lean way of doing development - it cuts the fat cats
>> off.
>
>Methinks you've never seen what it's like to try to get anything
>done inside 'the public sector' ...

And I think you've got a fantasy about the private sector. I own a business and the waste deriving from non-collective problem solving is astounding, not to mention the moral problem of wage slavery. The public sector is often quite efficient, if properly funded.

Bill



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